IN RE SMITH

No. 19-PR-0616.

305 A.3d 826 (2023)

IN RE Edward T. SMITH; Bruce E. Gardner, Appellant.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 14, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce E. Gardner, pro se.

Karl A. Racine, Attorney General for the District of Columbia at the time of submission, Loren L. AliKhan, Solicitor General at the time of submission, Caroline S. Van Zile, Principal Deputy Solicitor General at the time of submission, Ashwin P. Phatak, Deputy Solicitor General at the time of submission, and Stacy L. Anderson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, filed a brief on behalf of the District of Columbia as amicus curiae.

Before Beckwith and McLeese, Associate Judges, and Glickman, Senior Judge.


In 1998 and 2010, the Superior Court appointed Bruce E. Gardner to serve as conservator on behalf of the estate or person of Edward T. Smith. Mr. Smith, who was civilly committed in 1958, passed away in September 2013. This is Mr. Gardner's fourth appeal of a Superior Court determination regarding his entitlement to compensation...

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