In re Fasi

The Belknap County Probate Court (Cushing, J.) found the petitionee “to be suffering from mental illness ... so as to create a potentially serious likelihood of danger to himself and *480others,” and committed the respondent to the secure psychiatric unit (SPU) of the New Hampshire State Prison.

In this appeal, the petitionee challenges his involuntary commitment to the SPU on four grounds: (1) that the probate court erred in finding that the petitionee was not justified under RSA 627:1 in using deadly force against Howard Denney; (2) that the probate court erred in admitting as evidence events…