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IN RE RICHARDSON

Nos. 82-940, 82-941 and 83-146.

481 A.2d 473 (1984)

In re Jerome RICHARDSON, Appellant. In re Leonard CADE, Appellant. UNITED STATES, Appellant, v. In re Carlton ELLERBEE, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 24, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Carlin, Public Defender Service, Washington, D.C., with whom A. Franklin Burgess, Jr., Public Defender Service at the time the briefs were filed, and Holly R. Skolnick, Public Defender Service, Washington, D.C., at the time the briefs were filed, for Jerome Richardson, Leonard Cade and Carlton Ellerbee.

Ann O'Regan Keary, Staff Attorney, St. Elizabeths Hospital, with whom Stanley S. Harris, U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., at the time the briefs were filed, Michael W. Farrell and Wendy Bebie, Asst. U.S. Attys., and Maxine M. Harrington, Staff Atty., St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D.C., were on briefs, for U.S.

Before PRYOR and ROGERS, Associate Judges, and REILLY, Chief Judge, Retired.

PRYOR, Associate Judge:

These consolidated appeals are taken from final orders committing Cade, Richardson and Ellerbee to the supervision of St. Elizabeths Hospital (Hospital) pursuant to the District of Columbia Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill Act, D.C.Code § 21-501 et seq. (1981) (Act).

Our question concerns the appropriate procedures to be followed when reexamining a mentally ill individual, on an inpatient basis, who has previously been...

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