Not Guilty – Texas Jury Acquits Winkler County Nurse – American Nurses Association

It took the jury less than an hour to return a not guilty verdict this morning for Anne Mitchell, RN, defendant in the criminal trial that has come to be known as the “Winkler County nurses” trial. Mitchell faced a third-degree felony charge in Texas of “misuse of official information,” for reporting a physician to the Texas Medical Board for what she believed was unsafe patient care…

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