Petrone v. Pike County Probation Dept.

• Position: FAILURE TO PROTECT - Brief Article

U.S. District Court

PROTECTION FROM HARM

PAROLE

Petrone v. Pike County 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. 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...