SAN DIEGO—A doctor who previously faced criminal charges for the death of an inmate at the Las Colinas jail in Santee has agreed to surrender her medical license.
Friederike Von Lintig’s license had already been suspended, but medical board disciplinary documents dated earlier this month indicate her agreement to the license surrender, which will be effective this Friday.
Von Lintig had faced an accusation from the Medical Board of California that she “committed gross negligence” in her treatment of 24-year-old Elisa Serna, who died in the jail’s medical observation unit on Nov. 11, 2019.
Von Lintig was previously charged with involuntary manslaughter in Serna’s death, but an El Cajon jury could not agree on whether to convict or acquit her. Prosecutors later dismissed the case against her. Jurors also acquitted a jail nurse, Danalee Pascua, of involuntary manslaughter….