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IN RE JAMES W.

No. 114483.

10 N.E.3d 1224 (2014)

2014 IL 114483

381 Ill. Dec. 621

In re JAMES W. (The People of the State of Illinois, Appellant, v. James W., Appellee.).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied May 27, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Randall Rodewald, State's Attorney, of Chester (Michael A. Scodro, Solicitor General, and Richard S. Huszagh, Assistant Attorney General, of Chicago, and Patrick Delfino, Stephen E. Norris and Sharon Shanahan, of the Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, of Mt. Vernon, of counsel), for the People.

Veronique Baker, Director of the Legal Advocacy Service division of the Guardianship and Advocacy Commission, of Alton (Barbara A. Goeben, Ann Krasuski and Laurel Spahn, of counsel), for appellee.

Mark J. Heyrman, of Chicago, for amici curiae Mental Health America of Illinois and Mental Health Project of the Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic.

OPINION

Justice KARMEIER delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.

¶ 1 The issue in this case is whether a judgment continuing a patient's involuntary admission to a mental health facility pursuant to chapter 3, article VIII, of the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code (the Mental Health Code) (405 ILCS 5/3-800 et seq. (West 2010)) is fatally infirm because of the length of time...

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