CLERMONT, Fla. — Ten guards at a state prison in Clermont were found immune in the death of an inmate in 2017.
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The estate of Jose Villegas accused the guards at the Lake Correctional Institution of restraining Villegas with deliberate indifference.
Villegas was found unresponsive in his cell by the guards.
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They say he became combative after they woke him up.
An autopsy report found that the force used to restrain Villegas led to a cardiac arrest.
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A federal appeals court found that the guards were entitled to immunity.
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