EDWARD N. SCRUGGS, Retired Circuit Judge:
This case involves the involuntary commitment of a mentally ill person, hereinafter sometimes referred to as the patient, to the custody of the State Department of Mental Health for proper treatment of her illness.
Unquestionably the patient suffers from a mental disease. The issues before this court are: first, did she pose a real and present threat of substantial harm to herself or to others and manifest such by...
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