Florida sheriff pays $1.15M in wrongful death case

he Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office has paid $1.15 million to the estate of a mentally ill woman who died in her jail cell. Sheriff Bob Gualtieri told the Tampa Bay Times that 50-year-old Jennifer DeGraw should have never been arrested. She was found unresponsive in her cell in March 2009. She’d been jailed following a psychotic episode. A federal jury in February recommended damages of $975,000 after finding that former Sheriff Jim Coats in his official capacity was "deliberately indifferent" to DeGraw’s medical needs.