Legal Opinion
GENESS v. COUNTY OF FAYETTE
District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania
Decided December 5, 2019No. 2:16-cv-00876Unknown
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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA CRAIG GENESS : CIVIL ACTION v. : NO. 16-876 COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA : MEMORANDUM KEARNEY, J. December 5, 2019 After court-ordered mediation, the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services agreed to pay $375,000 to settle claims brought against it in March 2019 by Craig Geness, a mentally impaired man who spent over nine years in custody awaiting a hearing on whether he was competent to stand trial for a criminal homicide before being released by a state court judge before he could answer the charges at trial. As…
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