Lawyer: Ex-guard falsified log in Sandra Bland's death

An attorney in the wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother of Sandra Bland, who died last summer in a Texas jail after being arrested, says an ex-jail guard told him in a deposition he falsified jail log entries.

The Houston Chronicle reports attorney Cannon Lambert says the guard, Rafael Zuniga, had noted in a jail log he had checked on Bland in the hour before she was found dead in her cell.

But Lambert says the guard has acknowledged falsifying the log.

Bland, who was black, died in the Waller County jail after being arrested during a traffic stop. Authorities ruled her death a suicide.

The lawsuit alleges jail personnel didn't keep Bland safe.

Larry Simmons, Waller County's attorney, says the deposition testimony was taken out of context.

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