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Apolinar Solis, 51, who was legally blind and received regular dialysis treatment, cracked his skull in the fall, according to his attorney.
A sickly inmate fell to his death in a staircase of a Manhattan courthouse last week, said a lawyer for his devastated family.
Apolinar Solis, 51, who was legally blind and received regular dialysis treatment, was scheduled to see a judge on a drug possession case. He cracked his skull in the tumble, according to attorney Ilya Novofastovsky.
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“He fell down the stairs really badly,” said the lawyer, adding: “Some of the details are still foggy.”
A spokesman for the courts system had no additional details Sunday night.
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Solis, who lived with a sister on W. 105th St., had been held in Rikers Island on $ 10,000 bail since Oct. 18, records show.
He was injured Wednesday, when he had a scheduled court date at 100 Centre St., and died in a downtown hospital Friday.
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The medical examiner’s confirmed the cause of death to be the fall, said Novofastovsky. The lawyer slammed city agencies for providing little information to grieving relatives and not even alerting them that their loved one was hospitalized.
“It’s unfortunate that the protocol involves circling of the wagons and a wall of silence at the moment the family is going through such pain,” he said.
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