TUCSON, Ariz. – A federal jury on Tuesday rejected several claims by a group of illegal immigrants who claimed a southern Arizona rancher detained them at gunpoint, but found the rancher liable for assault and infliction of emotional distress.

The eight-member civil jury found that Roger Barnett didn’t violate the immigrants’ civil rights in 2004, and it rejected claims of battery and false imprisonment. For the remaining claims Barnett was ordered to pay $77,804 in damages — $60,000 of which were punitive.