What is “nolle prosequi”?
Nolle prosequi: (Latin: “not to wish to prosecute”) 1. A legal notice that a lawsuit has been abandoned. 2. A docket entry showing that a plantiff or the prosecution has abandoned the action. Often shortened to nolle.
Definition from Black’s Law Dictionary
What does it mean?
The prosecution drops the charges in a case, but it does not mean that they can not be reinstated at anytime in the future. No new evidence has to be collected for the charges to be reinstated. Nolle prosequi is very common.
What about the evidence against Fuller?
It is up to the Chesterfield Commonwealth Attorney’s Office whether the evidence is released to the public.
What are Fuller’s medical conditions?
Hypersmotic non-ketotic syndrome: Hyperosmolar Hyperglycemic Nonketotic Syndrome, or HHNS, is a serious condition most frequently seen in older people.
In HHNS, blood sugar levels rise, and the body tries to get rid of the excess sugar by passing it through the urine. The body makes and excess of urine at first, causing the need for more frequent urination. Later urination might decrease, and the urine becomes very dark in color. Thirst might also occur. Even if thirst is not experienced, consumption of liquids is vital.
Information provided by the American Diabetes Association
Aspiration pneumonia: Aspiration is defined as the inhalation of either oropharyngeal or gastric contents into the lower airways. Inhalation of these contents can lead to aspiration pneumonia. Aspiration pneumonia results from chronic, usually unwitnessed, inhalation of small amounts of oropharyngeal contents leading to an infectious process.
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Cerebral edema: Accumulation of excess fluid in the substance of the brain. The brain is especially susceptible to injury from edema, because it is located within a confined space and cannot expand.
Hypertension: Pulmonary hypertension generally results from constriction, or stiffening, of the pulmonary arteries that supply blood to the lungs. Consequently, it becomes more difficult for the heart to pump blood forward through the lungs. This stress on the heart leads to enlargement of the right heart and eventually fluid can build up in the liver and other tissues, such as tissue in the legs.
Type 2 diabetes: Often called non-insulin dependant diabetes, is the most common form of diabetes, affecting 90 percent-95 percent of the 18.2 million people with diabetes.
People with type 2 diabetes produce insulin; however, the insulin their pancreas secretes is either not enough or the body is unable to recognize the insulin and use it properly. This is called insulin-resistance. When there is not enough insulin or the insulin is not used as it should be, glucose (sugar) can not get into the body’s cells. When glucose builds up in the blood instead of going into cells, the body’s cells are not able to function properly.
Hyperlipidemia: High lipid (fat) levels in the blood.
Amnesia: Lack of memory. Amnesia after trauma can be antegrade or retrograde, depending upon whether the lack of memory relates to events occurring after or before the trauma. Amnesia is as compared to hypermnesia and hypomnesia.
Dementia: Significant loss of intellectual abilities such as memory capacity, severe enough to interfere with social or occupational functioning.
Criteria for the diagnosis of dementia include impairment of attention, orientation, memory, judgment, language, motor and spatial skills, and function.
Dementia is reported in as many as 1 percent of adults 60 years of age. It has been estimated that the frequency of dementia doubles every five years after 60 years of age.
Anoxic brain injury: Anoxic means an absence or near absence of oxygen.
Delirium: A sudden state of severe confusion and rapid changes in brain function, sometimes associated with hallucinations and hyperactivity, in which the patient is inaccessible to normal contact. Symptoms might include inability to concentrate and disorganized thinking evident by rambling, irrelevant, or incoherent speech. There might be a reduced level of consciousness, sensory misperceptions and illusions, disturbances of sleep, drowsiness, disorientation to time, place or person, and problems with memory.
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