MATTER OF PETERSON

No. C2-89-1212.

446 N.W.2d 669 (1989)

In the Matter of Donald Warren PETERSON.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Review Denied December 1, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald R. Betzold, Brooklyn Center, for appellant Peterson.

Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Atty. Gen., Kathy Meade Hebert, Ronald S. Latz, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., St. Paul, for respondent.

R. Thomas Greene, Minneapolis, guardian ad litem.

Heard, considered and decided by WOZNIAK, C.J., HUSPENI and RANDALL, JJ.


OPINION

RANDALL, Judge.

Donald Warren Peterson, previously committed as mentally ill and dangerous, appeals from an order authorizing the Minnesota Security Hospital to treat him with neuroleptic medications. We affirm.

FACTS

Donald Peterson shot and killed his roommate in December 1985. As part of the evidence regarding his competency to stand trial, it came out that Peterson claimed the act of killing his roommate was required to prove...

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