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Jury awards $9 million to family of man who died in jail 3/28/2006 A federal court jury awarded $9 million to the estate and parents of a man who died in 2001 after being strapped into a restraint chair at a Maricopa County jail. According to reports, Charles Agster III died in Aug. 2001 when county detention officers struggled to subdue him. But lawyers in the civil suit debated whether he suffocated in the chair or died from a reaction to methamphetamine. When Agster, who was mentally retarted, acted erratically, detention officers strapped him into a restraint chair to subdue him. And when he stopped breathing, according to the lawsuit, jail personnel did not immediately administer CPR. Agster died three days later. An initial autopsy report said that Agster died of positional asphyxia, effectively, that he had suffocated while being held down by detention officers. A later autopsy report said the cause of death was excited delirium consistent with methamphetamine abuse. Source: Legal News Feeds.com - Consultwebs.com |
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