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Salt Lake County Agrees to Pay $75,000 to Settle Jail Suicide Suit
Loaded on June 15, 2010
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2010, page 19
On September 15, 2008, Salt Lake County, Utah agreed to pay $75,000 to the family of an ex-cop who killed himself at the Salt Lake County Metro Jail.Arthur Anderson was arrested in January 2006 after his wife accused him of ramming his pickup truck into her car and shooting ...
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