{"id":355887,"date":"2015-05-21T13:06:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T18:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=355887"},"modified":"2015-05-22T13:06:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T18:06:04","slug":"gregg-county-jail-death-lawsuit-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=355887","title":{"rendered":"Gregg County Jail Death Lawsuit Dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/BobbyMadewellMug_1432222317533_522555_ver1.0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/BobbyMadewellMug_1432222317533_522555_ver1.0-159x200.jpg\" alt=\"BobbyMadewellMug_1432222317533_522555_ver1.0\" width=\"159\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-355888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/BobbyMadewellMug_1432222317533_522555_ver1.0-159x200.jpg 159w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/BobbyMadewellMug_1432222317533_522555_ver1.0-359x450.jpg 359w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/BobbyMadewellMug_1432222317533_522555_ver1.0.jpg 598w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 159px) 100vw, 159px\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW &#8212;  The mother of a man who died in custody at the Gregg County Jail has agreed to drop the lawsuit she filed claiming her son suffered a seizure because he was denied his prescribed drugs.  That&#8217;s according to KETK and the Longview News-Journal.  A three-sentence order from the federal court in Marshall says Gregg County and Betty Madewell, mother of Bobby Joe Madewell Jr., have &#8220;settled all claims.&#8221; U.S. Magistrate Judge Roy Payne&#8217;s May 11 order calls on parties to file a dismissal motion within 30 days.  Robert Davis, the county&#8217;s attorney, said Madewell agreed to drop her claim shortly before a jury was seated in Marshall federal court.  &#8220;The case has just been dismissed by the plaintiffs with prejudice,&#8221; Davis said, meaning she cannot file the claim again. &#8220;The county has spent no money on it.&#8221; <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Betty Madewell sued Gregg County in August 2013. Her 51-year-old son died March 21, 2013, nine days after his arrest on a charge accusing him of breaking bond conditions on a pending assault charge.  The man&#8217;s mother claimed in the lawsuit, carried by the Tefteller firm in Gilmer, that her son was denied the anti-anxiety drug Xanax and the muscle relaxant hydrocodone, both of which he had prescriptions.  Attorney Todd Tefteller declined to comment on the settlement Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; The mother of a man who died in custody at the Gregg County Jail has agreed to drop the lawsuit she filed claiming her son suffered a seizure because he was denied his prescribed drugs. That&#8217;s according to KETK and the Longview News-Journal. A three-sentence order from the federal court in Marshall says &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=355887\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gregg County Jail Death Lawsuit Dismissed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":355888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 11:56:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355889,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355887\/revisions\/355889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/355888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}