IN RE TRIFARI CIVIL COMMITMENT


188 N.J. Super. 122 (1982)

456 A.2d 123

IN THE MATTER OF THE CIVIL COMMITMENT OF GABRIEL TRIFARI.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division Mercer County.

Decided December 22, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William D. Guidry, Assistant Prosecutor, Monmouth County.

Michael T. Hartsough, Assistant County Counsel, Mercer County.

Benjamin S. Laves, Deputy Public Advocate, Essex County.


MENZA, J.D.C. (temporarily assigned).

This case involves the novel question of whether the prosecutor should be permitted to appear and be heard in a periodic review hearing of a patient civilly committed to a state hospital as a condition of parole.

On October 21, 1963 Gabriel Trifari was convicted of the murder of his father and brother and at the same time was acquitted, by reason of insanity, of the murder of his mother and sister. He was sentenced on...

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