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Jury awards $10M to family of Utah woman fatally injured in Davis County Jail fall

The 28-year-old woman had been in jail for less than two days when she fell out of her top bunk and suffered fatal injuries.

Heather Ashton Miller, in an undated photo provided to The Salt Lake Tribune. A federal jury in Utah on Friday awarded $10 million in damages to her family after a lawsuit alleged that Miller died from a fall in her Davis County Jail cell after a jail nurse brushed off her injuries.