ROBERTS, Judge.
This is the first appeal brought under Oregon's newly revised mental retardation commitment statute, ORS 427.005 et seq. (Oregon Laws 1979, c. 683). It involves a challenge by a 22 year-old woman, a resident of Fairview Training Center since the age of nine, to the institution's continuing legal ability to confine her.
Appellant is deaf. Because of cerebral palsy she is confined to a wheelchair, which she is able to propel with her feet. She...
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