MATTER OF BLACKSHEAR

Docket Nos. 240556, 240665, 240666.

686 N.W.2d 280 (2004)

262 Mich.App. 101

In the Matter of James Eugene BLACKSHEAR, Minor. People of the State of Michigan, Petitioner-Appellee, v. James Eugene Blackshear, Respondent, and Van Buren Community Mental Health Authority, Intervenor-Appellant. In the Matter of Richard Kyle Chastain, Minor. People of the State of Michigan, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Richard Kyle Chastain, Respondent, and Van Buren Community Mental Health Authority, Intervenor-Appellant. In the Matter of James Paul Keeton, Minor. People of the State of Michigan, Petitioner-Appellee, v. James Paul Keeton, Respondent, and Van Buren Community Mental Health Authority, Intervenor-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided May 18, 2004, at 9:20 a.m.

Released for publication July 21, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Juris Kaps, Prosecuting Attorney, and Keith A. Robinson, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, Paw Paw, for the petitioner.

Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C. (by Scott R. Sikkenga and Kara K. Zech), Kalamazoo, for Van Buren Community Mental Health Authority.

Before: MARKEY, P.J., and MURPHY and TALBOT, JJ.


TALBOT, J.

In these consolidated cases, we granted intervenor leave to appeal to determine whether the trial court may judicially admit a juvenile, found to be incompetent to stand trial, to the care, treatment, and supervision of a community mental health authority pursuant to the Mental Health Code, MCL 330.1100 et seq., and whether the court was allowed to direct a county community mental health authority to arrange

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