Marsha W. W. v. Capital District Psychiatric Center

— Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court at Trial Term (Cholakis, J.), entered January 9, 1984 in Albany County, which *989denied petitioner’s application pursuant to section 9.39 of the Mental Hygiene Law for release from confinement at the Capital District Psychiatric Center. 11 Some time on January 2, 1984, petitioner was taken in handcuffs from the Schenectady Battered Women’s Shelter to Ellis Hospital by the police. Apparently, shortly after her arrival there, she was transferred to respondent where she was admitted under the emergency provision of section 9.39 of the Mental Hygiene Law…