A federal judge in Tennessee has granted a new civil trial in a lawsuit over the 2010 death of an inmate at a prison in Nashville, citing the emergence of new evidence.

The inmate, Charles Jason Toll, 33, died while being forcibly taken out of his cell by corrections officers at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. The officers handcuffed and shackled Mr. Toll and carried him to an outdoor yard at the prison, where he died. On a prison video, Mr. Toll could be heard saying, “I can’t breathe,” at least 12 times.

Mr. Toll’s case, and the practice of forcibly removing inmates from their cells, a process known as cell extraction, was the subject of a front-page article in The New York Times in July.

In a written opinion issued Monday, Judge John T. Nixon of Federal District Court in Nashville said he was basing his ruling on a letter of resignation written by a guard who was present the night Mr. Toll died. The letter was uncovered by The Times, and excerpts from it were published in the article.