About Garner Wetzel
The younger Mr. Wetzel followed in his father’s footsteps, graduating from the Mississippi College School of Law in 2012 and obtaining his license for practicing law in Louisiana the same year. He is licensed in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Federal courts. He has been practicing personal injury law for the last six years. Garner Wetzel is a member of the American Trial Lawyers Association, American Bar Association, Louisiana Bar Association, and the Mississippi Trial Lawyers Association.
Proven verdicts and settlements
William Joel Dixon, 28, an insulin-dependent diabetic, was held in the George County Regional Correctional Facility in Lucedale in September 2014. For seven days he got no insulin. The jail nurse, Carmon Sue Brannan, dismissed his worsening condition as methamphetamine withdrawal. He died on September 24, 2014 of diabetic ketoacidosis. Brannan was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 15 years. In June 2022 George County agreed to pay his estate, his mother and his children $2,750,000.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
