RATTRAY v. STATE


223 A.D.2d 356 (1996)

636 N.Y.S.2d 43

Onis Rattray, Respondent, v. State of New York, Appellant Selvin James et al., Respondents, v. State of New York, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

January 4, 1996


On February 22, 1988, Donald Rattray, a voluntary mental patient at Bronx Psychiatric Center with a history of self-mutilative and assaultive behavior, eloped from the facility for the fifth time in a six month period. Rattray, who had been assigned the task of mopping a portion of the third floor of Ward 8, entered a utility closet, which had been left unlocked by hospital staff, tied several bed sheets together, then lowered himself to the ground through an ungated window...

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