LETTS, GAVIN K., Associate Judge.
At issue here is the extent of a landlord's liability for criminal violence perpetrated against a tenant by a third party who is not an employee, agent or representative of the landlord. The trial judge granted a motion to dismiss the tenant's fourth amended complaint with prejudice because there is "no legal precedent either at common law, by case law, or through statute for the allowance of [such] a cause of action ..." We disagree...
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