By Mike Donila
WBIR
KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. — Donnie Nichols walks slowly, like a man wading through quicksand.
His gait is jerky, almost robotic. He uses a cane to get around.
The movements, he says, are tied to a jailhouse neck injury now at the center of a years-long legal battle with Knox County that, if not dismissed, could go to trial this summer.
He says the medical staff at the Knox County Detention Facility failed to adequately treat him, allowing a fractured neck and crushed vertebrae to go undiagnosed for 70 days after he fell off his top bunk while sleeping.
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