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IN RE J.M.

No. 90-183.

596 A.2d 961 (1991)

In re J.M., Appellant.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 6, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Edward Shacklee, appointed by the court, for appellant.

Charlotte M. Brookins, Asst. Corp. Counsel, with whom Herbert O. Reid, Corp. Counsel at the time the brief was filed, and Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corp. Counsel, were on the brief, for appellee District of Columbia.

Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., and John R. Fisher and Shanlon Wu, Asst. U.S. Attys., filed a brief amicus curiae for the U.S.

Before SCHWELB and FARRELL, Associate Judges, and MACK, Senior Judge.

SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438, 479, 48 S.Ct. 564...

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