People v. Williams

Richard Williams brings this appeal from an order entered on February 28, 1985, by the circuit court of Kankakee County finding him to be subject to involuntary admission and hospitalization in the Department of Mental Health for a period not to exceed 60 days. Williams has a history of 15 admissions and/or transfers to the Department of Mental Health since 1971 with his last admission occurring in 1983 when he refused to leave prison upon being granted parole.

Williams had previously been found subject to involuntary admission for a 60-day period in an order entered on July 17, 1984. Williams…