*291 OPINION OF THE COURT Chief Judge Wachtler. Claimant’s husband was stabbed and killed by Joseph Evans, a mental patient who had been released from a State institution and was still receiving outpatient care from that facility. In a suit for wrongful death the Court of Claims found the State liable for negligently failing to have the assailant committe…
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