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MATTER OF SAMUELS

No. 85-405.

507 A.2d 150 (1986)

In the Matter of Russell SAMUELS.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided April 2, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maureen T. Cannon, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein and Mark S. Carlin were on brief, for appellant.

Ilene G. Rosenthal, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Joseph E. diGenova, U.S. Atty., and Michael W. Farrell, Thomas J. Tourish, Jr. and Diane G. Clark, Asst. U.S. Attys., were on brief, for appellee.

Before PRYOR, Chief Judge, FERREN, Associate Judge, and SALZMAN, Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

SALZMAN, Associate Judge:

Russell Samuels appeals his civil commitment to Saint Elizabeths Hospital for mental illness. That commitment stems from October 8, 1984, when Metropolitan Police Officer George P. Dodson found Mr. Samuels speaking incoherently and wandering aimlessly amidst moving automobile traffic on the freeway ramp leading to Maine Avenue. Officer Dodson brought Mr. Samuels to Saint Elizabeths Hospital where he was admitted on an emergency basis. The...

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