Johnson County is being accused of negligence in a lawsuit over the alcohol-withdrawal death of a 36-year-old jail inmate.
The estate of Nathaniel Davis Jr., who died in March 2024 after serving a portion of his seven-day sentence for drunken driving, is suing Johnson County and 19 individuals in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa.
The lawsuit alleges Davis “entered the jail healthy and cooperative, but within two days began exhibiting obvious symptoms of severe alcohol withdrawal, including hallucinations, tremors, confusion, and disorientation.”…