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MATTER OF BELK

No. 9126DC517.

420 S.E.2d 682 (1992)

107 N.C. App. 448

In the Matter of Timothy BELK, Respondent. WSOC TELEVISION, INC., Intervenor/Petitioner, v. STATE of North Carolina, ex rel. ATTORNEY GENERAL; Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority; the Children's Law Center; Mecklenburg County Area Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Authority; and Mental Health Association of Mecklenburg County, Inc., Intervenors/Respondents.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

September 15, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Lacy H. Thornburg by Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen. David M. Parker and Associate Atty. Gen. Michelle B. McPherson, Raleigh, for intervenor, respondent-appellee State.

Children's Law Center by Anne Morgan Sanders, Helen R. Bradford, and Marjorie L. Foley, Charlotte, for intervenor, respondent-appellee Children's Law Center.

Waggoner, Hamrick, Hasty, Monteith, Kratt and McDonnell by John H. Hasty, Charlotte, for intervenor, petitioner-appellant.

WYNN, Judge.

This appeal arises as the result of action taken by WSOC, a television station in Charlotte, North Carolina, to attend the commitment hearing of Timothy Belk ("Belk").

Apparently, after Belk began exhibiting violent and hallucinatory behavior, family members asked the Shiloh True Light Church of Mint Hill, North Carolina ("Church") for help in controlling him. The Church responded by confining Belk in a wire cage. Subsequently, several reporters...

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