K.C. v. State

URBIGKIT, Justice.

Presented by this appeal is the difficult and socially pervasive concern of government responsibility — administrative, judicial and legislative — for the adequacy of care to be provided the mentally ill. Sufficiency of care and treatment was directly contested in the involuntary civil commitment of this admittedly mentally ill and severely disturbed adult to the Wyoming State Hospital (State Hospital) in Evanston, Wyoming, the state’s only domiciliary institution. Consequently, alternative arrangements were requested, and the discretionary authority of the district court…