IN RE COMMITMENT OF W.H.


736 A.2d 529 (1999)

324 N.J. Super. 519

In the Matter of the COMMITMENT OF W.H.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided June 15, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ivelisse Torres, Public Defender, for appellant (Richard I. Friedman, Deputy Public Defender, of counsel and on the brief).

Respondent's brief was suppressed.

Before Judges BRAITHWAITE and WECKER.


The opinion of the court was delivered by BRAITHWAITE, J.A.D.

Appellant W.H., a fifty-one year old man, was ordered temporarily committed to Meadowview Hospital on June 3, 1998. Appellant has a "long psychiatric history" and was committed because "[h]e became non-compliant with his medications." Following a hearing on June 25, 1998, a final order of commitment was entered with a "review in two weeks" so that appellant's medication could be changed. Following his review...

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