Griffin v. Twin Valley Psychiatric Systems

Richard M. Markus, Judge.

{¶ 1} This matter came before this court for a bench trial on the defendant psychiatric hospital’s liability for multiple murders and other violent harm that a former adult patient (Jerry Hessler) caused on November 19, 1995, four months after the hospital discharged him on July 20, 1995. The plaintiffs claim that the defendant hospital negligently discharged that patient and that its negligent discharge proximately caused the former patient’s violent acts. At the trial, the plaintiffs withdrew any claim that the hospital failed to warn potential victims and offered…