A Nassau County judge refused to seal court documents in the settlement of a lawsuit stemming from a gruesome murder, citing a need for transparency in what he called the first case of its kind in New York—a suit against a voluntary mental health facility for the actions of a voluntary patient.
Supreme Court Justice F. Dana Winslow, in Fox v. Marshall, 014183/08, approved a $500,000 wrongful death settlement for the survivors of Denice Fox, a retired schoolteacher who was killed and dismembered in her home by Evan Marshall, the mentally ill son of a neighbor on a weekend pass from a psychiatric institution.
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