The plaintiff in a federal police brutality lawsuit against the city that ended in a $250,000 jury award last month is now seeking over $200,000 in attorneys’ fees and trial-related costs.

Should Lee Hutchins Sr. prevail in the attorneys’ fee petition, filed on his behalf last Friday in U.S. District Court in Boston, the City of Springfield could be on the hook for more than $450,000.

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