PEOPLE v. HANES


93 A.D.2d 676 (1983)

The People of the State of New York ex rel. John Logatto, Respondent, v. Lee D. Hanes, as Director of The St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center, et al., Appellants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

June 2, 1983


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Julie S. Mereson of counsel), for appellants.

Peter R. Terriah for respondent.

SWEENEY, KANE, WEISS and LEVINE, JJ., concur.


MAHONEY, P. J.

Petitioner's confinement as a patient in the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center stems from his acquittal of the criminal charge of aggravated harassment on the ground of lack of responsibility due to mental disease or defect (Penal Law, § 30.05). Although conditionally released in November of 1981, petitioner was recommitted to the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center and the custody of the Commissioner of Mental Health pursuant to the provisions...

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