IN THE MATTER OF SAWYER


14 Misc.3d 718 (2006)

829 N.Y.S.2d 865

In the Matter of DONALD A. SAWYER, as Executive Director of Central New York Psychiatric Center, Petitioner, for an Order Authorizing the Retention of DALE R., Respondent.

Supreme Court, Oneida County.

December 21, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mental Hygiene Legal Service (Stephen C. Clark and Michael Hungerford of counsel), for respondent.

Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General (G. Lawrence Dillon and Joel Marmelstein of counsel), for petitioner.


OPINION OF THE COURT

ROBERT F. JULIAN, J.

Dale R. (the respondent) seeks the appointment of an independent psychiatrist or, in the alternative, a consulting psychiatric expert for the examination of the respondent, a former Department of Correctional Services inmate now civilly committed to the Psychiatric Center based on his being diagnosed as a pedophile and consequently determined to be mentally ill. The underlying proceeding was initiated by petitioner...

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