IN RE G.G.

No. 19-002.

224 A.3d 494 (2019)

2019 VT 83

IN RE G.G.

Supreme Court of Vermont. September Term, 2019.

November 15, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. McCullough III , Vermont Legal Aid, Inc., Montpelier, for Appellant.

Thomas J. Donovan, Jr. , Attorney General, and Eleanor L.P. Spottswood , Assistant Attorney General, Montpelier, for Appellee State of Vermont.

Zachary Hozid and Patricia Shane , Student Intern, Disability Rights Vermont, Montpelier, for Amici Curiae Disability Rights Vermont and Vermont Psychiatric Survivors, Inc.

PRESENT: Reiber, C.J., Robinson, Eaton and Carroll, JJ., and Morris, Supr. J. (Ret.), Specially Assigned


¶ 1. This is an appeal from an order of the family division permitting the State to involuntarily medicate patient G.G. Prior to being hospitalized, patient executed an advance directive indicating that he did not wish to be administered antipsychotic medications. The family division determined that patient lacked capacity to execute...

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