Dudley v. Offender Aid & Restoration of Richmond, Inc.

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• recognizing that the class to whom a duty is owed is established by determining who is \directly and foreseeably exposed to the risk of bodily harm \ as a result of the defendant's actions
• holding privately owned halfway house liable for § 319 negligence action because public policy considerations not same for private institution as for public officials
• finding that halfway house owed duty of care to individual raped and murdered by felon residing in the facility
• involving a halfway-house which clearly did not exert reasonable care in controlling a convicted felon
• applying § 319 to a privately operated \halfway house\ for convicted felons that allowed an inmate to leave, rape, and kill a neighbor of the facility
• a halfway house had a duty to the public under § 319 because it had “taken charge of’ its residents within the meaning of § 319

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