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IN THE MATTER OF M.C.

No. SJC-12481.

481 Mass. 336 (2019)

IN THE MATTER OF M.C.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

February 5, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Debra Kornbluh (Anne Kealy also present) for M.C.

Suleyken D. Walker, Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Mental Health.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Susan Stefan for Aaron Needle & others.

Brian Almeida, Michael Boyne, Jessica Deratzian, James T. Hilliard, & Michael Porter for Massachusetts Psychiatric Society, Inc., & others.

Elizabeth B. McCallum, of the District of Columbia, & Mark I. Bailen for Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law & others.

Karen Owen Talley, Committee for Public Counsel Services, & Robert D. Fleischner, Jennifer Honig, & Stanley J. Eichner for Committee for Public Counsel Services & others.

Wayne Ramsay, pro se.

Thomas F. Schiavoni, pro se.

Present: GANTS, C.J., LENK, GAZIANO, LOWY, BUDD, CYPHER, & KAFKER, JJ.

After being charged with misdemeanor breaking and entering and wanton destruction of property, M.C. was found incompetent to stand trial. He was committed temporarily to a psychiatric facility pending a civil commitment hearing, to be held pursuant to G. L. c. 123, § 5; during that time, M.C. was diagnosed as having schizophrenia...

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