The News Journal from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 11

Monday, May 21, 1984 The News-Journal papers B3 State hospital says life has been lovely without Levy 1 evaluations were "not of the quality you would expect, especially when you are prosecuting someone. The prosecutors in the attorney gen-. eral office were particularly unhappy with him In an interview Friday. Levy said Feeney comment "was a laugh- able statement for him to make." He said Feeney does not have the professional background to make such a statement, and his own evaluations were "highly regarded by prosecutors." these matters. 1 might give the request some consideration." Feeney said there is some truth in Levy's position on O'Neal's case.

But he said Levy should have developed some treatment program for O'Neal's personality disorders. Neal did eventually get treatment, Feeney said, and is now allowed to leave the hospital during the day. The hospital director said Levy did not always work a 37 -hour week, as required, and his patient PARKVIEW CONVALESCENT CENTER A Known Standard of Excellence By ROWAN SCARBOROUGH Dover Bureau reporter Dr. William Levy has been gone from his Delaware State Hospital post 1 Vj months now, and the hospital director and one judge say relations between the hospital and Delaware's criminal justice system have already.improved. During tenure at the hospital, Levy found himself at odds with defense attorneys, prosecutors and a.

few of the state's judges. A feisty and at times controversial psychiatrist, Levy was director of the hospital's forensic services unit, charged with giving opinions on the sanity of criminal defendants. Defense attorneys criticized him for finding no signs of major mental illness in defendants who had been deemed insane in committing previous crimes. Hospital Director Robert C. Feeney says the Justice Department has complained about Levy's written evaluations on the mental competency of defendants.

A department spokesman declined to comment. And, in the case of a man found innocent by reason of insanity on a kidnapping charge, a Superior Court judge was forced to order the hospital to, treat the patient after Levy had repeatedly refused to do so. I Today. Levy maintains a private practice in Philadelphia. His replacement.

Dr. Kutas Dogan, frequently visits patients in the 22-bed unit. Feeney said. judge's order that ultimately led to his quitting the job and to the appointment two weeks ago of Dogan, who was clinical director of the children's division at the Governor Bacon Health Center Thurman C. O'Neal, a former ironworker, went on trial in Kent County in March 1983 on charges of taking a Dover attorney hostage.

Levy testified that O'Neal was not insane at the time of the incident, but nonetheless a jury found him innocent by reason of insanity on a kidnapping charge. O'Neal was confined to the Comegys Building, the hospital's maximum-security unit. Levy argued that he could not treat a person whom he had found had no mental illness, so O'Neal spent idle days in the compound. In August, Superior Court Judge Robert C. O'Hara conducted a hearing and then ordered the hospital to treat O'Neal.

Feeney said he had waited a week for Levy to start treating O'Neal. When no treatment was made. Feeney said, he suspended Levy for one day without pay, the first time during his eight-year directorship that he had suspended a doctor. Feeney described the situation as a "cat-and-mouse thing." Levy appealed the suspension through the state's grievance system. In March, the state Personnel Commission upheld Feeney.

Levy then resigned. "I think it kind of defamed him, and he decided to leave." Feeney said, adding. "We did not try to persuade him to stay." 4 Last week. Levy provided a reporter with a copy of a letter he had sent to the chairman of the Personnel Commission, Gov. du Pont, the attorney general, the chief justice of the state Supreme Court and other officials.

In the letter. Levy attacked the commission's decision. "Psychiatry, especially forensic psychiatry, is complex," the letter said. "Since none of the members of your commission is a psychiatrist, it was no surprise to me that your commission would exhibit the usual misunderstanding and ignorance of psychiatric issue. "Obviously.

I cannot give psychiatric treatment for a condition that 1 myself do not diagnose. The present hospital director is not a psychiatrist or any type of doctor and has no professional background to comprehend these issues," the letter said. The letter concluded by saying: "If in the future you or others would like some further enlightenment on Thieves grab money from store register State police are looking for two men who grabbed almost $100 from a John Wanamaker cash register after one of them shoved a sales clerk away from the money drawer late Sunday afternoon in the department store on Augustine Cut-Off, north of Wilmington. Police said clerk Marianne Twaddell was ringing up a sale on the register in the ladies' sportswear department about 4:50 p.m. when one of the men pushed her away and grabbed money.

As he ran out a side door, the second man tried to reach in the drawer and grab more money. But he fled when Twaddell grabbed his arm. Police said Twaddell hung on to the second man and was dragged several feet as he fled, but she was not injured. Police described both robbers as black males, one about 5-foot-5, the other about 5-foot-2, and both weighing about 150 pounds. Dr.

William Levy "The patients, so far, are tickled to death," he said. "One of their biggest complaints was they did not see Levy." Superior Court Judge Joseph T. Walsh said he and other jurists had complained to Feeney that Levy's services were inadequate. "I think there was a general feeling of dissatisfaction in the courts with Dr. Levy," Walsh said.

"Yes, I think there has been a definite improvement." Walsh said written evaluations of defendants are now done more promptly, and he has noticed a "positive attitude in trying to recommend a course of action, rather than saying there isn't a problem." It was Levy's defiance of a The finest nursing care in an immaculate and completely fire safe environment Semi-private rates $43 day A participating facility for Medicare and Blue Cross Election Delaware 655-6135 2801 W. 6th St. Wilmington called the former state Supreme Court justice a longtime friend and the "most outstanding candidate for governor." Quillen faces David N. Levinson and former Gov. Sherman W.

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