The wife of a man who died after being strapped into a restraining chair for 14 hours at the Coweta County Jail has reached a $525,000 settlement with the county to dismiss claims that jailers and medical staff ignored her husband’s worsening medical condition as well as the chair maker’s warning against using it for more than two hours.
“The nut of this case is this: You’re not supposed to get the death penalty for a DUI in Georgia, and that’s exactly what happened to Willie Sutton,” said D. Brandon Hornsby, who represented Betty Sutton along with Moraitakis, Kushel, Pearson & Gardner partner Albert M. Pearson III.
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