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Justice for a lost soul.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-JUL-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Justice for a lost soul.(mentally ill abuse)

Article Excerpt
At first glance, James Bell was not the ideal plaintiff for a wrongful death suit.

A patient at Whiting Forensic Psychiatric Hospital--part of the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services--James suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. He was a young, morbidly obese African-American man with a long history of assault and allegedly sexually predatory behavior. He had been institutionalized for many years, never held a job, and had little education and no earning capacity. James was a smoker and had serious medical conditions, including obstructive sleep apnea, which made it impossible for him to breathe while lying on his back.

James lived at the fringes of society. He was the type of person most of us would rather not...

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