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IN RE STRICKLAND

No. 91-1018.

597 A.2d 869 (1991)

In re Harland STRICKLAND, Appellant.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 27, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chukwuma I. Odelugo, Washington, D.C., for appellant.

Charles M. Rust-Tierney, Alexandria, Va., with whom James Klein and Harry J. Fulton, Washington, D.C., were on the pleadings, for amicus curiae, the Public Defender Service.

Edward E. White, Asst. Corp. Counsel, with whom John Payton, Corp. Counsel, and Ann O'Regan Keary, Deputy Corp. Counsel, Washington, D.C., were on the opposition to the motion for summary reversal, for appellee Saint Elizabeths Hosp.

Before TERRY and SCHWELB, Associate Judges, and PRYOR, Senior Judge.

PER CURIAM:

On August 28, 1991, pursuant to the emergency admission procedures of the District of Columbia Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill Act, commonly known as the Ervin Act, D.C.Code §§ 21-521 through 21-528 (1989), appellant was involuntarily admitted to Saint Elizabeths Hospital for emergency observation and diagnosis. See D.C.Code § 21-522. The next day, August 29, the hospital filed a petition for an order authorizing appellant's continued...

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