 As Fox's Chanley Painter, the judge also ruled against defense arguments that the prosecution had not demonstrated criminal behavior on the part of Baldwin. A New York man is awarded nearly $2 million after part of his thumb was chopped off by a self-closing door on his luxury car. Here's Fox's Gary Baumgarten. 68-year-old Godwin Boateng, a Valley Stream New York software engineer, lost part of a thumb.