SOUTER, J.
The State appeals an order of the Merrimack County Probate Court (Cushing, J.), which dismissed a petition for involuntary civil commitment on the alternative grounds that the respondent was mentally retarded but not mentally ill within the meaning of RSA 135-C:34 (Supp. 1987), and that the State had failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the respondent posed "a potentially serious likelihood of danger...." See id. We reverse because...
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