Opinion ID: 353179
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Purported Suicide Attempt.

Text: 40 Following Dr. Messinger's examination on approximately July 26, 1968, Suggs was sent to the Brooklyn House of Detention for Men. On August 1, 1968, he was placed under special mental health observation due to a self-inflicted injury and an undated letter from Suggs suggesting the possibility of suicide. 16 41 According to Warren A. King, the psychiatric social worker who conducted the mental health evaluation, Suggs told him that Suggs had attempted to hang himself to retaliate against parents because they refused to write or visit. King noted in his report that before the transfer, he had warned the correction officers that this inmate could possibly be assaultive. He stressed that Suggs had a long history of acting out behavior and resulting institutionalization and is quite disturbed, and has a great deal of underlying hostility. This incident apparently was not known to Suggs' counsel or to any judge before whom appellee appeared until the hearing before Judge Duffy in January, 1977. 42