In Re Commitment of WH

736 A.2d 529 (1999)

324 N.J. Super. 519

In the Matter of the COMMITMENT OF W.H.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Submitted May 19, 1999.

Decided June 15, 1999.

Ivelisse Torres, Public Defender, for appellant (Richard I. Friedman, Deputy Public Defender, of counsel and on the brief).

Respondent's brief was suppressed.

Before Judges BRAITHWAITE and WECKER.

The opinion of the court was delivered by BRAITHWAITE, J.A.D.

Appellant W.H., a fifty-one year old man, was ordered temporarily committed to Meadowview Hospital on June 3, 1998. Appellant has a "long psychiatric history" and was…