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Lawrence Phillips strangled himself in cell with 'do not resuscitate' note taped to chest, final coroner's report says
By omaha.com- Henry J. Cordes
Published: 06/15/2016

Lawrence Phillips strangled himself with a bedsheet strung from a TV shelf in his California prison cell, concludes the final report of the coroner who investigated the former Nebraska football star’s death.

The long-awaited report offers other new details of what prison officials found when they entered Phillips’ cell on Jan. 13, including a “Do Not Resuscitate’’ note taped to his chest. Phillips was hanging in a seated position, apparently because the TV shelf was so low to the floor.

There were other such details in the report, but nothing that on its face would suggest that the death of the talented but flawed Phillips was anything but self-­inflicted.

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