MATTER OF COMMITMENT OF D.J.W.

No. 2018AP145-FT.

942 N.W.2d 277 (2020)

2020 WI 41

In the MATTER OF the mental COMMITMENT OF D.J.W.: Langlade County, Petitioner-Respondent, v. D.J.W., Respondent-Appellant-Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Opinion Filed: April 24, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the respondent-appellant-petitioner, there were briefs filed by Jeremy A. Newman , assistant state public defender. There was an oral argument by Jeremy A. Newman .

For the petitioner-respondent, there was a brief filed by Robin James Stowe , corporation counsel. There was an oral argument by Robin James Stowe .

ANN WALSH BRADLEY, J., delivered the majority opinion of the Court, in which ZIEGLER, KELLY, DALLET, and HAGEDORN, JJ., joined. ROGGENSACK, C.J., filed a dissenting opinion. REBECCA GRASSL BRADLEY, J., filed a dissenting opinion.


¶1 The petitioner, D.J.W., seeks review of an unpublished, authored decision of the court of appeals affirming the circuit court's order extending his involuntary commitment.1 The court also continued his involuntary medication and treatment on an inpatient basis. D.J.W. contends that Langlade...

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