People v. Phillip E.

Phillip E. appeals from the trial court’s August 8, 2007, judgment concluding that he should remain subject to involuntary admission and “hospitalized in a Department of Human Services mental health or developmental center, which is the least restrictive environment currently appropriate and available.” We reverse.

From the record, we note that Phillip E. was born in 1980 and has essentially been a part of various state programs since he was an infant. Phillip was born in a prison to an unwed inmate. He lived in a Texas prison for the first couple of years of his life. Thereafter, he had…