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JONES v. UNITED STATES

No. 11918.

432 A.2d 364 (1981)

Michael A. JONES, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 29, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Silas J. Wasserstrom, Public Defender Service, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Michael W. Farrell, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Charles F. C. Ruff, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry and Oscar Altshuler, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., were on the petition, for appellee.

Larry Martin Corcoran, Washington, D. C., filed a brief as amicus curiae.

Before NEWMAN, Chief Judge, and KELLY, KERN, GALLAGHER, NEBEKER, HARRIS, MACK, FERREN and PRYOR, Associate Judges.

KELLY, Associate Judge:

Appellant Michael A. Jones is a mental patient at St. Elizabeths Hospital where he has been committed since March 1976, pursuant to D.C.Code 1973, § 24-301(d).1 In February 1977, he appealed from an order by Judge Eugene N. Hamilton denying his request for immediate release from St. Elizabeths or in the alternative for civil commitment in accordance with the procedures set forth in D.C.Code 1973, § 21...

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