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flashl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-27-08 02:34 PM
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Plea deal for juvenile center nurse in teen death
MIAMI (AP) -- A former Miami juvenile detention center nurse is pleading guilty to a misdemeanor in the 2003 death of a teenager that led to a state juvenile justice reforms.

Under a plea agreement, Dianne Demeritte will serve one year on probation for culpable negligence in the death from a burst appendix of 17-year-old Omar Paisley. Demeritte also will give up her nursing license and apologized to the boy's family, Miami-Dade County prosecutors said Thursday.

Charges against a second nurse were dropped. Both had been charged with manslaughter and third-degree murder.

The Paisley case led to a shakeup at the state Department of Juvenile Justice, including the departure of some two dozen officials. The state also paid more than $1 million to Paisley's family.

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Tangerine LaBamba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-27-08 02:37 PM
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1. What is WRONG with Florida?
I mean, besides the obvious.

"Florida - for the newly-wed and the nearly-dead."

"Florida - where you go to die warm."
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gaspee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-27-08 02:39 PM
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2. Yeah
cause her apology to his family makes it all better.

:sarcasm:

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