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MATTER OF ALLEGED MENTALLY DISORDERED PERSON

2 CA-CIV 5101.

145 Ariz. 81 (1985)

699 P.2d 1312

In the Matter of Application For the COMMITMENT OF AN ALLEGED MENTALLY DISORDERED PERSON, NO. MH-1360-1-84.

Court of Appeals of Arizona, Division 2, Department B.

March 11, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederic J. Dardis, Pima County Public Defender by Katherine Markoulis, Tucson, for appellant.

Stephen D. Neely, Pima County Atty. by Martha M. Durkin, Tucson, for appellee.

OPINION

LIVERMORE, Judge.

Appellant shot herself in the head in October 1983. In January 1984 she told a social worker she felt as she did in October. Alarmed, the social worker arranged for emergency hospitalization. At the hospital appellant asked the janitor to kill her. On this and other evidence, the trial court found by clear and convincing evidence that appellant was suffering from a mental illness and was a danger to herself and ordered a 90-day commitment...

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