MATTER OF LUTTRELL

No. 4-93-0867.

633 N.E.2d 74 (1994)

261 Ill. App.3d 221

198 Ill.Dec. 612

In the Matter of William LUTTRELL, Asserted to be a Person Subject to Involuntary Admission (The People of the State of Illinois, Petitioner-Appellee, v. William Luttrell, Respondent-Appellant).

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District.

Decided April 13, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melissa McGrath (argued), Guardianship & Advocacy Com'n, Peoria, Jeff Plesko, Managing Atty., Guardianship & Advocacy Com'n, Anna, for appellant.

Lawrence R. Fichter, State's Atty., Decatur, Norbert J. Goetten, Director State's Attys. Appellate Prosecutor, Robert J. Biderman, Deputy Director, David E. Mannchen (argued), Elliott Turpin, Staff Atty., Springfield, for appellee.


Justice KNECHT delivered the opinion of the court:

William Luttrell appeals from an order finding him to be a person subject to continued involuntary hospitalization. (Ill.Rev. Stat.1991, ch. 91½, par. 3-813.) Luttrell raises three procedural and two substantive arguments in support of the reversal of the order. We find several of the arguments persuasive and reverse.

I. FACTS

Luttrell has been hospitalized in the Adolf Meyer Mental Health and...

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