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Killer's suit alleges job discrimination
By Kristin E. Holmes, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
An East Coventry man who killed his wife and stabbed his daughter
and grandmother has sued the state mental hospital where he is a
patient, alleging that it discriminated against him when he
applied for a job at the facility.
Richard L. Greist filed the lawsuit against Norristown State
Hospital, where he has been committed since the 1978 killing. He
is asking that U.S. District Court order the hospital to consider
him for the job. In addition, Greist is seeking compensatory
damages.
The Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare also was named in
the suit. The department operates the state's nine mental
hospitals and seven mental-retardation centers.
In the suit, Greist claims that the hospital violated the
Americans With Disabilities Act and the equal-protection clause
of the Constitution when officials would not consider him for a
clerk's job.
Greist has been found to have paranoid schizophrenia and
mixed-personality disorder. The Americans With Disabilities Act
prohibits discrimination in employment based on disability, and
the Constitution's equal-protection clause says that states may
not deny legal protection.
Lawyer Neil O'Leary, who represents Greist, could not be reached
for comment yesterday. Jay Pagni, a spokesman for the Department
of Public Welfare, said the agency did not comment on pending
litigation.
According to the suit, Greist applied for the job in October 1999
and subsequently met with a hospital personnel analyst. The
hospital turned him down several weeks later, the suit says.
Greist then filed complaints with the Pennsylvania Human
Relations Commission and the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission. Both complaints were denied, according to the court
filing.
Greist was committed to Norristown State Hospital after a rampage
during which he killed his wife, then eight months pregnant,
ripped the fetus from her womb, stabbed his 6-year-old daughter
in the eye, and slashed his grandmother across the throat. His
daughter and grandmother survived. Greist was found not guilty of
the killing by reason of insanity.
In recent years, Greist has been repeatedly turned down in his
quest to be released from the hospital, despite testimony from
some psychiatrists who have said he has recovered.
Kristin E. Holmes' e-mail address is kho...@phillynews.com
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