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Jail Prisoner Strangles Psychiatrist; Jury Awards $2.6 Million
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2005, page 37
A Florida jury awarded $2,650,260 in the strangling death of a psychiatrist doing an evaluation on a prisoner at the Collier County Jail. David J. Hoyer was doing a court ordered competency evaluation on January 3, 2001, when he was attacked by prisoner Rodrigus Sanchez Patten, then 20.The suit ...
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