MATTER OF LEON R. v. PALMER


266 A.D.2d 218 (1999)

697 N.Y.S.2d 693

In the Matter of LEON R., Respondent, v. JOHN PALMER, as Executive Director of Kingsboro Psychiatric Center, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

Decided November 1, 1999.


Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

In 1988, Leon R. was committed to a secure psychiatric facility pursuant to CPL 330.20 after he was found not responsible due to mental disease or defect for the death of a fellow prison inmate. In or about December 1989 he was transferred to Kingsboro Psychiatric Center (hereinafter Kingsboro), a nonsecure facility, where, pursuant to multiple retention orders, he has remained. After the appellant...

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