MATTER OF COMMITMENT OF R.J.O.

Appeal No. 2018AP1037.

943 N.W.2d 898 (2020)

2020 WI App 20

In the MATTER OF the mental COMMITMENT OF R.J.O.: Marathon County, Petitioner-Appellant-Cross-Respondent, v. R.J.O., Respondent-Respondent-Cross-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Opinion Filed: April 14, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On behalf of the petitioner-appellant-cross-respondent, the cause was submitted on the briefs of Michael Puerner , corporation counsel.

On behalf of the respondent-respondent-cross-appellant, the cause was submitted on the briefs of Melissa Petersen of Petersen Law Firm, L.L.C., Ellsworth.

Before Stark, P.J., Hruz and Seidl, JJ.


¶1 R.J.O. was involuntarily committed under WIS. STAT. § 51.20 (2017-18), and her commitment was later extended.1 However, the circuit court subsequently granted R.J.O.'s postdisposition motion to dismiss her commitment. The court agreed with R.J.O. that it had lost competency to consider Marathon...

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