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Eighth Circuit Upholds $1.25 Million Jury Award for Missouri Prisoner’s Death

Loaded on Jan. 31, 2018 by Matthew Clarke published in Prison Legal News February, 2018, page 29
Filed under: Wrongful Death, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death). Location: Missouri.

by Matt Clarke

On June 22, 2017, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a jury award of more than $1.25 million in a lawsuit over a Missouri prisoner’s death.

Danial Letterman was held at the Western Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in a secured, padded room under suicide watch ...

 

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