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IN RE MacKLIN

No. 21-FM-112.

286 A.3d 547 (2022)

IN RE Wendell MacKLIN, Appellee; District of Columbia, Appellant.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 22, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Holly M. Johnson , Senior Assistant Attorney General, with whom Karl A. Racine , Attorney General for the District of Columbia, Loren L. AliKhan , Solicitor General at the time the brief was filed, Caroline S. Van Zile , Principal Deputy Solicitor General, and Ashwin P. Phatak , Deputy Solicitor General, were on the brief, for appellant.

Kelsey Townsend , Public Defender Service, with whom Samia Fam and Jaclyn S. Frankfurt , Public Defender Service, were on the brief, for appellee.

Dissenting opinion by Associate Judge Easterly at page 560.

This case arises at the intersection of the Incompetent Defendants Criminal Commitment Act (IDCCA), D.C. Code § 24-531.01 et seq., and the Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill Act (also known as the Ervin Act), D.C. Code § 21-501 et seq. The trial court concluded that appellee Wendell Macklin was entitled to release...

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