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Petrone v. Pike County Probation Dept.


U.S. District Court

PAROLE-LIABILITY

Petrone v. Pike County Pike County is the name of several counties in the United States:
  • Pike County, Alabama
  • Pike County, Arkansas
  • Pike County, Georgia (Located in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area)
  • Pike County, Illinois
  • Pike County, Indiana
  • Pike County, Kentucky
 Probation Dept., 240 F.Supp.2d 317 (M.D.Pa. 2002). The administrators of the estate of a woman who was killed by her husband, brought a [section] 1983 action against a county probation office and county probation officers probation officer
n.
1. An official usually attached to a juvenile court and charged with the care of juvenile delinquents.

2. An official charged with supervising convicts at large on suspended sentence or probation.
. The administrators alleged that the defendants violated the woman's due process rights by failing to inform her of her husband's long history of violent behavior toward women. The district court held that the administrators pleaded sufficient facts to state a claim against the county probation office and probation officers through the state-created danger exception, in their [section] 1983 action under the Fourteenth Amendment Fourteenth Amendment, addition to the U.S. Constitution, adopted 1868. The amendment comprises five sections. Section 1


Section 1 of the amendment declares that all persons born or naturalized in the United States are American citizens and citizens
, by alleging that the defendants knew that the parolee pa·rol·ee  
n.
One who is released on parole.

Noun 1. parolee - someone released on probation or on parole
probationer
 had violent propensities towards women and that he was romantically involved with a woman whom he later murdered. (Pike County Probation Department, Pennsylvania)
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Title Annotation:RELEASE
Publication:Corrections Caselaw Quarterly
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1U2PA
Date:May 1, 2003
Words:143
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