Adams v. Arkansas Department of Health & Human Services

PAUL E. DANIELSON, Justice.

The instant case is a no-merit appeal from an order of long-term protective custody filed by counsel for appellant Rufus Homer Adams. The order awarded long-term custody of Mr. Adams to appellee Arkansas Department of Health and Human Services (DHS). Mr. Adams’s brief presents this court with an issue of first impression, that is, whether a court-appointed attorney for an alleged endangered, indigent adult can file an Anders no-merit appeal from an order of long-term custody in an adult-protective case. Assuming that an Anders no-merit appeal is possible, counsel…