Legal Opinion

Commitment of GPH v. Giles

Indiana Court of Appeals

Decided September 24, 1991No. 49A05-9101-CV-19PublishedCited by 13 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SHARPNACK, Judge.

GPH appeals from an order of regular commitment of him to Community North Hospital upon findings that he suffers from chronic paranoid schizophrenia and is both dangerous to himself and gravely disabled. We affirm.

GPH raises several issues on appeal, which we restate as follows:(1) Whether the evidence was sufficient to support the trial court's finding that GPH should be involuntarily committed.(2) Whether a court's finding that a patient is dangerous or gravely disabled is without support when the record does not reflect that anyone involved in the proceedings made an…

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2Cases cited22 opinions

  1. Johnson v. ZerbstSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
  2. Addington v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  3. O'Connor v. DonaldsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
  4. Pickens v. StateWisconsin Supreme Court · 1980
  5. People v. JosephCalifornia Supreme Court · 1983

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3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Paul E. Sherman v. Four County Counseling Center, Douglas Cox, Cass Superior Court Judge, and Gary Boyles, OfficerCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1993
  2. In the Matter of the Civil Commitment of T.K. v. Dep't of Veterans AffairsIndiana Supreme Court · 2015
  3. In Re the Commitment of J.B.Indiana Court of Appeals · 2002
  4. Commitment of S.T. v. Community Hospital NorthIndiana Court of Appeals · 2010
  5. A.A. v. Eskenazi Health/Midtown CMHCIndiana Supreme Court · 2018

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