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Jun 25, 2021 | 4:46 PM
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) The Mississippi Supreme Court will not reconsider the case of a former jail nurse convicted in the 2014 death of a George County inmate.
Justices denied Carmon Brannan’s request for the Supreme Court to take up her case in an order filed June 18.
In July 2018, a Warren County jury convicted Brannan of manslaughter in the Sept. 14, 2014, death of William Joel Dixon. The Mississippi Court of Appeals affirmed the manslaughter conviction in October 2020.
Dixon, a 29-year-old insulin-dependent diabetic, was an inmate at the George County jail where Brannan was employed as a nurse.
“During his incarceration, Dixon complained that he was unable to breathe, felt weak, and could not keep any foods or liquids down,” the Appeals Court wrote in 2020. “In addition, guards found Dixon on the floor of his cell and unable to walk on multiple occasions.”
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