BARNSTABLE A medical malpractice tribunal determined there is enough evidence to proceed with a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the estate of a woman who hanged herself at the Barnstable County Correctional Facility in 2017.
The tribunal ruled last week that there is “sufficient evidence to raise a legitimate question as to liability appropriate for judicial inquiry” for Correctional Psychiatric Services, the third-party vendor that was hired to handle mental health cases at the jail, and several of its employees, in the case filed by the estate of Jessica DiCesare.
DiCesare, a Centerville mother of two, died by suicide in 2017 at the jail in Buzzards Bay while she was awaiting a hearing on charges of receiving stolen property, driving uninsured and without a license and possession of class C and E drugs.