But despite the victory, Boatwright and his pro bono attorneys are outraged that the officer who blindsided him and left him toothless faces no criminal charges and remains on the police force.
In the course of beatings, the guards broke all his teeth, leaving him toothless for four years.
The old saying, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth leaves you toothless and blind -- it does not create peace.
They went to the dentist and had their gums taken care of and some residual teeth pulled, which left them completely toothless.
Is trifle truly one of Britain's greatest contributions to dessert, or a revolting medieval mess that's best left to the toothless and the Italians?
Bullied and undermined, planning authorities have been left castrated and toothless, stripped of the skills and power they need to regulate, and sapped of the spatial imagination to actually plan places.
What is left is a toothless regulatory regime that has been called "a fraudulent process" of "public deception" by a former oil-sector executive, which ultimately can be overruled if the government wants an unsafe project to go ahead.
And loopholes in proposed bans on high-frequency trading and agricultural commodity speculation have left those measures essentially toothless.
France Coach Laurent Blanc went with a more defensive lineup, trying to limit the impact of Spain's midfield, but it left his team largely toothless up front.
"A powerful investigating body that can hold the most powerful public body in Scotland to account is now perceived by the family as a toothless body left begging for cooperation," he said.
Last time the commission tried to get tough with supermarkets, in 2000, the big four stores fought back and managed to dilute the recommendations until all suppliers were left with was a toothless "code of practice" that has failed to control supermarket excesses.
