OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Officials for Douglas County have reached a lawsuit settlement with a psychiatrist who testified that he thought a man accused of killing four Omaha residents was “crazy.”
The county Board of Commissioners is expected to decide Tuesday whether to approve paying $125,000 to Dr. Eugene Oliveto. Oliveto contended in a $1 million federal lawsuit filed in March that the county Corrections Department fired him in retaliation for his courtroom candor.
Oliveto testified in February at a hearing to determine whether Nikko Jenkins was competent to stand trial. Oliveto said Jenkins was “crazy,” schizophrenic and “one of the most dangerous people I have ever evaluated.” Jenkins later pleaded guilty to killing four people in August 2013, within weeks of leaving prison.