Legal Opinion
In re Sanborn
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Decided May 6, 1988No. 87-112PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSouter, J.
The State appeals an order of the Merrimack County Probate Court (Cushing, J'.), which dismissed a petition for involuntary civil commitment on the alternative grounds that the respondent was mentally retarded but not mentally ill within the meaning of RSA 135-C:34 (Supp. 1987), and that the State had failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the respondent posed “a potentially serious likelihood of danger . . . .” See id. We reverse because the trial court erroneously suppressed evidence of the respondent’s statements to the police, and because Proctor v. Butler, 117 N.H. 927, 935, 380…
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