D.L. v. State Department of Human Resources

RUSSELL, Judge.

This case involves the involuntary commitment of a minor.

Following the filing of a petition for the commitment of D.L. (appellant) by the Mobile County Department of Human Resources (Department), the juvenile court conducted a probable cause hearing. Subsequently, the juvenile court, finding such cause to exist, ordered that, pending a final hearing, the appellant remain at the Southeast Adolescent Program, a residential care facility where he had earlier been placed by the Department. On July 6, 1989, following an ore tenus proceeding, the juvenile court issued its final…