Probation Officer Liability and the Public Duty Doctrine

Published for NC Criminal Law on December 01, 2009.

A recent court of appeals case, Blaylock v. N.C. Department of Correction-Division of Community Corrections, has spurred to write about something I’ve been meaning to write about for a while: probation officer liability when a supervised offender hurts someone. In Blaylock, a probation officer was supervising a mentally ill probationer named James Oakes who had ... Read more

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