Legal Opinion

Matter of Luttrell

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided April 13, 1994No. 4-93-0867PublishedCited by 52 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Knecht

William Luttrell appeals from an order finding him to be a person subject to continued involuntary hospitalization. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1991, ch. 91½, par. 3—813.) Luttrell raises three procedural and two substantive arguments in support of the reversal of the order. We find several of the arguments persuasive and reverse.

I. FACTS

Luttrell has been hospitalized in the Adolf Meyer Mental Health and Developmental Center (Center) intermittently since 1985. His most recent period of hospitalization apparently began on March 18, 1993. The record does not reflect when the order providing for this…

2Cases cited14 opinions

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