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Manslaughter charges dropped in a man's death at a psychiatric hospital

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Irvo Otieno was pinned to the floor for about 11 minutes while being admitted to a state psychiatric hospital.

Video captured a scrum of deputies and hospital workers restraining him.

He died of what a medical examiner found was “positional and mechanical asphyxia with restraints” A jury found Wavie Jones not guilty in October .