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K.C. v. STATE

No. C-88-9.

771 P.2d 774 (1989)

K.C., Appellant (Respondent), v. The STATE of Wyoming, Appellee (Petitioner).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

March 20, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert G. Pickering of Bailey, Pickering, Stock & Welch, Cheyenne, for appellant.

Joseph B. Meyer, Atty. Gen., John W. Renneisen, Deputy Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before CARDINE, C.J., and THOMAS, URBIGKIT, MACY and GOLDEN, JJ.

URBIGKIT, Justice.

Presented by this appeal is the difficult and socially pervasive concern of government responsibility — administrative, judicial and legislative — for the adequacy of care to be provided the mentally ill. Sufficiency of care and treatment was directly contested in the involuntary civil commitment of this admittedly mentally ill and severely disturbed adult to the Wyoming State Hospital (State Hospital) in Evanston, Wyoming, the state...

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