A Lincoln judge has dismissed Nikko Jenkins' self-filed lawsuit against the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services for denying him mental health services before he got out and killed four people in Omaha.
Lancaster County District Judge Lori Maret wrote in a four-sentence order Friday that Jenkins had failed to serve the Corrections Department, as state law requires.
In November, Jenkins filed the civil rights lawsuit alleging that his mental stability had deteriorated during 2½ years in solitary confinement at the Tecumseh State Correctional Institution and that he was suffering from severe psychosis when prison officials released him from a solitary confinement cell straight into society.
He was seeking $1.7 million.
While in prison, Jenkins had asked for mental health treatment -- in writing -- 38 times. He asked for psychiatric hospitalization six times, and three times for civil commitment. All were denied.
Within weeks of his release, he killed four people in Omaha over a 10-day stretch and later pleaded no contest to four counts of first-degree murder and other charges.
The state is seeking the death penalty, but the sentencing phase is on hold to see if the law to remove the death penalty goes into effect Aug. 29. ..Source.. by Lori Pilger
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