Trial opens in wrongful-death case.
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Jul. 13–Was Mark Willmon a mentally ill person who was needlessly killed by the Sacramento police officers he called for help? Or was he a threatening man who was restrained and perished because of his own drug use? Dueling points of view were presented Thursday in opening arguments of a civil wrongful-death case before Sacramento Superior Court Judge Raymond Cadei. On the dark, rainy morning of April 13, 2003, tow-truck driver Willmon, 45, died after officers restrained him on the lawn of his Meadowview |