Four Muskegon County Jail Officers To Stand Trial In Inmate’s Death

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From the Associated Press — Four corrections officers in western Michigan have been ordered to stand trial in the 2019 death of a jail inmate who suffered multiple seizures while in a cell. Muskegon County sheriff’s Sergeant David Vanderlaan, and deputies Jeffrey Patterson, Crystal Greve and Jamal Lane are charged with involuntary manslaughter. A county district judge bound them over Thursday for trial following a preliminary examination. Charges were dismissed against a former nurse. In April, Michigan’s attorney general’s office filed charges accusing the five of willful neglect of duty in the death of 39-year-old Paul Bulthouse. MLive.com reports that a medical examiner testified he suffered 18 seizures over 41/2 hours.