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 UPDATE, FEB. 5, 7:43 P.M.: A civil jury has awarded $5.7 million to PTA mom Kelli Peters and her family in their lawsuit against Kent Easter and his ex-wife, Ava Everheart, City News Service reports. In addition, Kent Easter is required to pay $1.5 million in punitive damages, while Jill Easter, who now goes by the name Ava Everheart, must pay $2.1 million. Kent Easter’s law license has been suspended, while Jill Easter was disbarred 
 
 Kent Easter claimed innocence throughout his criminal trial and a recent deposition. For those who might have missed our coverage, the Easters' war on Peters began in 2010, when Jill showed up to Plaza View School in Irvine to pick up her then first grader son, but he was missing from the lineup of students. The conflict escalated as Jill Easter tried to have Peters dismissed from her school volunteer job and claimed that Peters was stalking her and her son. And so, the night of Feb. 15, 2011, the couple planted a bag filled with a marijuana pipe, Vicodin and Percocet behind the driver's seat in Peters' car, and the next day Kent Easter, posing as a neighbor, called police to say he saw Peters drive erratically to the school and that she might have drugs in her car. Officers searched Peters’ car and found bags of marijuana and pills that were later determined to have been planted by the Easters – both former attorneys who attended prestigious law schools. Peters was detained and questioned by police for about two hours at the school, causing extreme emotional pain and humiliation, she testified during the three-day trial. "This case is about justice"—the justice Kelli Peters and her family have been waiting for for four years, their attorney, Rob Marcereau, says in Anderson's report from the trial's opening day. He said Peters was "humiliated" in front of her daughter and the rest of the school as she was "forced to sit on a curb like a criminal as police searched her car." "The point of all this is how much money the Peters' should get," Easter said in his opening remarks, acknowledging that "something bad was done to the Peters, but it doesn't give them a winning Powerball number."
– A Southern California couple has been ordered to pay $5.7 million in damages to the former PTA president they tried to frame by planting drugs in her car and calling the police (using a faux Indian accent). It took a jury less than an hour to find that Kent Easter and his now ex-wife Jill Easter—both former lawyers—acted with malice, oppression, or fraud in February 2011 when they stashed pot, Vicodin, and Percocet in Kelli Peters' car, the Orange County Register reports. "This was really not about money, this was about standing up to people that pick on other people and telling them it’s not OK to do this," an emotional Peters tells the Register. "I feel like justice has been served." The attempt to frame Peters was the culmination of a yearlong campaign to get her dismissed as a volunteer at Plaza Vista School in Irvine. It all started in February 2010 when Jill Easter was upset that her son wasn't waiting in front of the school at pick-up time. Peters testified that she said the 7-year-old may have been "slow to line up." Perceiving an insult to her son's intelligence, Jill Easter (now calling herself Ava Everheart) became enraged. Here's a rundown, according to OC Weekly, of the Easters' actions: They claimed Peters had locked their son in the school. Jill Easter distributed fliers at school outlining Peters' fictitious misdeeds. They filed a police report against her. They claimed Peters was stalking their son. They filed an unsuccessful lawsuit against her. Kent Easter was ultimately sentenced to 87 days in jail in the drug-planting incident, while Jill Easter got 60 days. During the recent civil trial, Kent Easter claimed that Peters was exaggerating her level of distress (she was detained at the school for some two hours while parents, students, and her daughter watched). "The fact that something really bad was done to a person does not give them a winning Powerball number," he told the jury.