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MATTER OF COMMITMENT OF F.H.

258 N.J. Super. 532 (1992)

610 A.2d 882

IN THE MATTER OF THE COMMITMENT OF F.H. TO THE FORENSIC PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided July 23, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Furlong argued the cause for appellants J.H. and F.H.

James T. Hill, Jr., Deputy Attorney General, argued the cause for respondent Department of Human Services (Robert J. Del Tufo, Attorney General, attorney, Mary C. Jacobson, Deputy Attorney General, of counsel, and James T. Hill on the brief).

Before Judges LONG and R.S. COHEN.

The opinion of the court was delivered by COHEN, R.S., J.A.D.

F.H. was sentenced for a sex crime to a term at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center. Because there was no available bed there, he was temporarily confined as a state prisoner at the Ocean County Jail. After a suicide attempt, F.H. was involuntarily committed, on the application of the acting warden of the jail, to the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in Trenton, a state hospital. He remained there until...

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