A state appeals panel on Thursday revived a lawsuit brought against San Diego County by the family of a man who died in San Marcos shortly after sheriff’s deputies restrained him.
The ruling concerns the October 2017 death of Kristopher Birtcher, 34, who was shot with a stun gun and subdued by responding deputies outside a Hobby Lobby store.
Deputies and a psychiatric emergency team had responded to reports of a disoriented man who was possibly on drugs near the front entrance of the store…