“Legal question: Would the landlord incur liability if he rents to a known felon who then perpetrates crimes on the other residents? Doesn’t he have a duty to somehow protect them, or at least warn them?
If he does have this liability, he’s in a Catch-22 situation where the government forces him to perform a prosecutable act, and then hangs him out to dry.
In product law, wouldn’t this be a known, hidden defect? In landlord-tenant law, wouldn’t this be analogous to allowing the building to have an unmitigated, known, unsafe situation?”
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I have a better one....
what if the felon signs a years lease yet violates his parole and has to go back to the big house...does the landlord have the right to sue for broken lease and back rent?
what if the felon signs a years lease yet violates his parole and has to go back to the big house...
Our pin-headed Atty General Bob Ferguson has no idea what a can-of-worms he's opened.
His vain attempt at political correctness will only make things worse for all parties involved.