IN RE KHAMVONGSA

No. 95-FM-153.

697 A.2d 19 (1997)

In re: Chantharangsy KHAMVONGSA, Appellant.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 19, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chantharangsy Khamvongsa, filed a brief pro se.

Charles F.C. Ruff, Corporation Counsel at the time the brief was filed, and Lutz Alexander Prager, Assistant Deputy Corporation Counsel, Janet L. Maher, Deputy Corporation Counsel and Diane G. Lucas, Assistant Corporation Counsel, filed a brief for appellee.

Before WAGNER, Chief Judge, and FERREN and STEADMAN, Associate Judges.


WAGNER, Chief Judge:

Appellant, Chantharangsy Khamvongsa, a prison inmate, while serving a sentence, was transferred to St. Elizabeths Hospital on an emergency basis under the provisions of D.C.Code § 24-302 (1996) and Super. Ct. Ment. H.R. 9(j) (1996). The trial court dismissed the petition for Khamvongsa's hospitalization and ordered his return to the Department of Corrections forthwith. When he was not returned immediately, he wrote a letter to an assistant...

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