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KOCIENSKI v. CITY OF BAYONNE

Civ. A. No. 90-1930 (MTB).

757 F.Supp. 457 (1991)

Elizabeth KOCIENSKI, Individually and as Administratrix Ad Prosequendum of the Estate of Helen Garity, Deceased, Plaintiff, v. CITY OF BAYONNE, a Municipal Corporation, County of Hudson, a body politic under the laws of the State of New Jersey, Larry A. Butler, Chief Warden of the County of Hudson, Eugene McCoy, the Bayonne Police Department, James Sisk, Chief of Police, Joseph Pellichio, Director of Public Safety, Police Officer Mark Smith, Police Officer David Markowski, Lieutenant Sullivan and Police Officers John Klimek, and Lieutenant Robert McCarthy, and Police Officers John Does 1-10, being fictitious names, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

February 22, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shulman & Wall by Thomas J. Wall, Edgewater, N.J., for plaintiff.

Adubato & Jaffe by Michele A. Adubato, Bayonne, N.J., for defendants Sisk, Sullivan, Markowski, Smith, McCarthy and Klimek.

OPINION

BARRY, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Plaintiff Elizabeth Kocienski ("Kocienski") instituted this action on May 14, 1990 against the City of Bayonne, the County of Hudson and various other city and county officials, both on behalf of herself and as Administratrix ad Prosequendum of the estate of her sister, Helen Catherine Garity ("Garity"). Garity committed suicide in the Bayonne Municipal Jail on December 7, 1988 by hanging herself with...

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