NEW HAVEN, Conn. ― Police officers and jail guards committed no wrongdoing in the arrest and detention of a Yale University professor who died in a cell in November, according to internal investigations by the Connecticut Judicial Branch and New Haven police.
The medical examiner’s office ruled last month that Samuel See died of acute methamphetamine and amphetamine intoxication with a recent heart attack and that his death was an accident.
The 34-year-old See was detained by police responding to a report of domestic dispute. Police say See was found unresponsive the next day in his cell at the New Haven detention facility.
The judicial investigation concluded marshals followed procedures and there was no evidence that See’s death was the result of negligence or inattention. A police probe found no violations of department rules or orders.
David Rosen, an attorney hired by See’s family, said they’re still gathering information.
“We want to know all we can about how and why Sam See died,” Rosen wrote in an email. “Legal judgments are for later.”
See was an assistant professor of English and American studies who was on leave from the Ivy League university in New Haven.
