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IN RE PETERSON

No. 06-FM-1333.

984 A.2d 192 (2009)

In re Elijah PETERSON, Appellant.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 3, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurie B. Davis, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein, Public Defender Service, was on the brief for appellant.

Stacy L. Anderson, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Peter J. Nickles, Attorney General for the District of Columbia, Todd S. Kim, Solicitor General, and Donna M. Murasky, Deputy Solicitor General, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before RUIZ, KRAMER, and BLACKBURNE-RIGSBY, Associate Judges.

KRAMER, Associate Judge:

Appellant Elijah Peterson admitted himself as a voluntary inpatient at the Washington Hospital Center ("WHC"). After he requested a discharge, he was transferred to St. Elizabeths Hospital as an emergency, involuntary patient. Judge Linda Davis denied Peterson's motion to dismiss an application for an emergency seven-day hospitalization. In this appeal, Peterson argues that the transfer to St. Elizabeths as an involuntary inpatient violated...

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