Legal Opinion
Darling v. Augusta Mental Health Institute
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided December 22, 1987PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McKUSICK, Chief Justice.
Plaintiff Eleanor Darling, personal representative of the estate of her son Frank Darling, appeals to this court the dismissal of her claims arising out of the murder by her son of his wife after he was discharged from the Augusta Mental Health Institute (AMHI) and then his suicide while an inmate in the Cumberland County jail. In Superior Court (Cumberland County) plaintiff sued AMHI, the Commissioner of the Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, the Superintendent of AMHI, various AMHI employees, and Cumberland County Sheriff Martin Joyce and Deputy…
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