IN RE GUTHRIE

No. 3-89-0182.

196 Ill. App.3d 352 (1990)

553 N.E.2d 735

In re JAMES GUTHRIE, Asserted to be a Person Subject to Involuntary Admission (The People of the State of Illinois, Petitioner-Appellee, v. James Guthrie, Respondent-Appellant).

Appellate Court of Illinois — Third District.

Opinion filed March 8, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeff M. Plesko, of Guardianship & Advocacy Commission, of Carbondale, for appellant.

Kevin W. Lyons, State's Attorney, of Peoria (Rita Kennedy Mertel, of State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor's Office, of counsel), for the People.


Order reversed.

JUSTICE WOMBACHER delivered the opinion of the court:

The trial court found that the respondent, James Guthrie, was a person subject to involuntary admission and ordered him hospitalized in the Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 91 1/2, par. 1-119(2)). The respondent appeals, arguing among other things that the petition to involuntarily commit him was not timely filed.

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