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MILLARD v. HARRIS

No. 21492.

406 F.2d 964 (1968)

Maurice I. MILLARD, Appellant, v. David W. HARRIS, Acting Superintendent, St. Elizabeths Hospital, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided by Judgment Entered November 8, 1968.

Opinions Rendered December 12, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Armin U. Kuder, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. David Carliner, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Robert A. Ackerman, Atty., Department of Justice, with whom Messrs. David G. Bress, U. S. Atty., Frank Q. Nebeker and Oscar Altshuler, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, WILBUR K. MILLER, Senior Circuit Judge, and WRIGHT, Circuit Judge.

BAZELON, Chief Judge:

The appellant challenges his continued commitment to Saint Elizabeths Hospital under the Sexual Psychopath Act.1 He has been a patient there since October 17, 1962. Slightly more than a month before that date, he was charged in the old Municipal Court — now the Court of General Sessions — with indecent exposure, the maximum punishment for which was imprisonment for 90 days or a $300 fine, or both.

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