Joyce v. State, Dept. of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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• holding that parole officers have a “definite, established and continuing relationship” with their parolees sufficient to impose a duty under § 319
• holding that a Department of Corrections policy directive did not support a jury instruction suggesting a legal obligation of an officer to act
• recognizing a duty of community corrections officers
• internal policies that are not promulgated pursuant to legislative delegation do not have the force of law
• “Internal directives, department policies, and the like may provide evidence of the standard of care and therefore be evidence of negligence.”
• The department properly objected to legally erroneous jury instructions that prevented the department from arguing its theory of the case.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).