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Former respiratory therapist in Missouri sentenced in connection with patient deaths

FILE - This undated photo provided by the Johnson County (Kan.) Sheriff's Department shows Jennifer Hall. Hall, a former Missouri respiratory therapist who pleaded guilty in the deaths of two hospital patients has been sentenced to 18 years in prison, Friday, Aug. 18, 2023.
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FILE - This undated photo provided by the Johnson County (Kan.) Sheriff's Department shows Jennifer Hall. Hall, a former Missouri respiratory therapist who pleaded guilty in the deaths of two hospital patients has been sentenced to 18 years in prison, Friday, Aug. 18, 2023.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former Missouri respiratory therapist who pleaded guilty in the deaths of two hospital patients has been sentenced to 18 years in prison. Jennifer Hall was initially charged with two counts of first-degree murder but pleaded guilty in April to reduced first-degree involuntary manslaughter counts in the deaths of 75-year-old Fern Franco and 37-year-old David Wesley Harper. She also pleaded guilty to one count of attempted second-degree assault. KCTV-TV reports that Hall was sentenced Friday. Franco and Harper were among nine patients who died at Hedrick Medical Center in Chillicothe over several months in 2002 in what charging documents describe as “medically suspicious” events.

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