Judicial Commitment of FBSR

|,WOODARD, Judge.

The mover, FBSR, appeals the trial court’s continuation of his judicial commitment and denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, seeking to be released from nursing home confinement which was based on mental illness. For the reasons below, we reverse.

FACTS

Pursuant to a physician’s emergency certificate on January 1, 1997, FBSR a seventy-six-year-old retired physician, was admitted to the Rapides General Hospital Geriatric Psychiatric Unit in Alexandria, Louisiana. A coroner’s emergency certificate was filed the next day, and on January 16, 1997, Dr. Winston O’Quin,…