ALLEN, Chief Justice.
This case is an appeal from an order of involuntary medication pursuant to 18 V.S.A. § 7618. The appellant contends that the State failed to prove, by clear and convincing evidence, that she is a "person in need of treatment," as defined at 18 V.S.A. § 7101(17), such proof being a prerequisite to an order of involuntary treatment. 18 V.S.A. §§ 7616(b), 7617(b).
The evidence adduced at the hearing in May of 1984 disclosed...
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