PHO TOGRAPHY BY LARRY MARCUS
Raynes McCarty’s Jerry McHugh wants you to know that the minivan
we referenced in his 2005 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers article—the
one with 83,000 miles on it—is alive and well. “I’m still here [in
my West Philadelphia neighborhood] and I’m still driving that old
thing,” he says. He’s been pretty busy since appearing on our cover.
His significant work includes DeJesus v. USA, in which McHugh
represented the estates of four deceased children who were killed
by Alejandro DeJesus. “[DeJesus] was a mentally disturbed veteran,”
McHugh says. Shortly after DeJesus was released from a Veteran
Affairs facility—even though he was demonstrating signs of an
emotional crisis—he murdered two of his children and two of their
playmates. “We litigated under a gross negligence standard, under
the Pennsylvania Mental Health Procedures Act,” McHugh says. He
was successful, and the case won a substantial verdict, which was
affirmed by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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