The criminal case was dismissed Wednesday against a doctor who faced an involuntary manslaughter charge for the death of an inmate at the Las Colinas jail in Santee.
Prosecutors moved Wednesday to dismiss the lone count against Friederike Von Lintig, 59, less than a week after an El Cajon jury voted 9-3 in favor of acquitting her in the Nov. 11, 2019, death of 24-year-old Elisa Serna.
The same jury also found nurse Danalee Pascua, 39, not guilty of involuntary manslaughter on Friday.
Von Lintig was the physician on duty the day Serna died, while Pascua was the last nurse to see Serna before her death.
Serna died shortly after she collapsed in her cell in the jail’s medical observation unit, five days after she was booked into the jail.
Prosecutors alleged that both Von Lintig and Pascua failed to properly treat Serna, who was suffering from symptoms of drug and alcohol withdrawal, including frequent vomiting and seizures. While her withdrawal symptoms were severe, Serna’s condition could have been treated, prosecutors argued, yet she allegedly was often ignored or accused of faking her symptoms.