When Dejour Palmer was hospitalized during his recent incarceration at the Allegheny County Jail, his lawyer and family were left in the dark.
After a June 11 hearing at which a judge dropped the charges against Palmer, his family was expecting his release within 72 hours. Instead, they didn’t hear from him for a week.
“I started getting calls from his family members saying, ‘Do you know what’s going on with him? He hasn’t called. He usually calls every night, and we haven’t heard from him,’” Palmer’s lawyer Aaron Sontz tells Pittsburgh City Paper. Palmer’s lawyer and family saw on his court docket that he was no longer in the custody of the jail…