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PROVO, Utah (AP) -- The family of a man who fatally shot his wife in a church parking lot in 2008 is appealing a judge's decision to dismiss a lawsuit against the health care providers who prescribed him several mood-altering drugs.
The Daily Herald of Provo reports David Ragsdale's family wants the Utah Supreme Court to overturn District Judge Denise Lindberg's December dismissal of the suit against nurse practitioner Trina West, Dr. Hugo Rodier and Pioneer Comprehensive Medical Clinic.
The family's lawyers have argued Ragsdale's murder of his wife, Kristy, was a "foreseeable" result of a mixture of psychotropic medications he had been prescribed.
He shot his wife outside an LDS church meetinghouse in Lehi. Ragsdale later pleaded guilty to aggravated murder and was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison.
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