A trial date for a federal wrongful death civil rights lawsuit has been scheduled for August of next year.
FOX11 reports that the lawsuit for the mother of Micah Laureano will take place on August 3rd and is against two corrections officers.
Laureano’s mother Phyllis, claims that the secretary and a warden with the Green Bay Correctional Institution were responsible for the 19-year-old’s death because of the lack of care and concern for the safety of the inmate.
According to the lawsuit, the “Defendants’ willful and deliberate indifference to Mr. Laureano’s safety resulted in him being murdered by his cellmate.”
The state has denied any wrongdoing. Laureano was strangled to death in a cell he was sharing with 25-year-old Jackson Vogel in August last year.
Vogel was later found guilty of 1st-degree intentional homicide after a trial.
The Two Rivers native was in prison originally after being found guilty due to a no-contest plea after stabbing a family member in Manitowoc County in 2018.
He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the homicide at Green Bay Correctional.
