NPR: District Judge David Goggins Monday decided the state has enough evidence to warrant bounding Nick Lyon, director of the Health and Human Services Department, over for trial. The charges stem from the deaths of two men from Legionnaires Disease in 2015.
"The victims' deaths, that is Robert Skidmore and John Snyder, their deaths were caused by this neglect of the defendant," Goggins read from his opinion, "in [Nick Lyon's] failure to act appropriately with regarding to disseminating notices to the public."
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