National Bank v. State

The issue in this case is whether or not Robert Drucker, an employee of the State of Illinois who was the parole officer assigned to supervise a parolee, one Jesse Sumner, was negligent in his duties, thereby leaving Mr. Sumner free to commit three murders rather than being remanded to a State penitentiary.

Jesse Sumner had been convicted of two bank robberies and one murder when he was paroled from the Department of Corrections in December of 1972. He was placed under the supervision of parole officer Robert Drucker, an employee of the State of Illinois. The parole officer, also an…