GENESS v. COUNTY OF FAYETTE

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. July 29, 2020 Craig Geness is a fifty-three-year-old mentally disabled man who spent nearly ten years in Fayette County custody (rather than in an appropriate facility supervised by the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services) awaiting a repeatedly postponed hearing on his competence to stand trial for a charged homicide the Commonwealth later conceded it could not prove. After spending months attempting to…