STATE IN INTEREST OF R.G.W.


145 N.J. Super. 167 (1976)

366 A.2d 1375

STATE OF NEW JERSEY IN THE INTEREST OF R.G.W.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, Passaic County.

October 20, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Salim J. Balady, Assistant Deputy Public Defender, Passaic County, for petitioner (Mr. Terence P. Corcoran, Deputy Public Defender, Passaic County, attorney; Mr. Balady of counsel and on the brief).

Mr. Mark A. Geannette, Deputy Attorney General, for respondent New Jersey Commissioner of Institutions and Agencies (Mr. William F. Hyland, Attorney General of New Jersey, attorney; Mr. Geannette of counsel and on the brief).

Mr. Carl Hecht, Assistant Prosecutor, Passaic County, for respondent State of New Jersey (Mr. Burrell Ives Humphreys, Prosecutor, Passaic County, attorney).

Mr. Herman Osofsky, Assistant Passaic County Counsel, for respondent Passaic County Board of Chosen Freeholders (Martin Verp, Passaic County Counsel, attorney).


NITTO, J.C.C., Temporarily Assigned.

Petitioner seeks a court order implementing his constitutional and statutory right to effective medical and psychiatric treatment or, in the alternative, directing his immediate release.

Petitioner was originally institutionalized at Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, Morristown, New Jersey, by order of the Passaic County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, dated February 25, 1974, upon a finding by this court that...

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