LEAVITT v. McLEAN HOSPITAL CORP.


28 Mass. App. Ct. 598 (1990)

554 N.E.2d 852

EDWARD E. LEAVITT & another vs. McLEAN HOSPITAL CORPORATION & others.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Worcester.

May 23, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sandra L. Hautanen, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth.

Joseph J. Wadland for the defendant.

Present: Brown, Kass, & Jacobs, JJ.


BROWN, J.

After conviction of certain criminal offenses (see 17 Mass.App.Ct. 585 [1984]), Regina Leavitt fled the jurisdiction prior to sentencing. She was later apprehended at McLean Hospital, a private mental hospital in the Commonwealth, where on March 29, 1982, she had voluntarily committed herself. See G.L.c. 123, § 10. Following a hearing before a Superior...

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