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Utah judge rules jail nurse can be held liable for giving ibuprofen to inmate with a fatally ruptured spleen

After Heather Ashton Miller fell from the top bunk of her jail cell and onto the concrete floor below, she told the facility’s nurse that her entire body hurt.

Her cellmate added that she saw Miller hit her head. When Miller tried to get up, the woman she was bunking with said that Miller had also smashed her side pretty hard, too.

Davis County jail’s nurse Mavin Anderson helped walk Miller to another cell — because she couldn’t stand on her own — and gave her some ibuprofen. She was nauseous and dizzy and had a hard time answering his questions.