Watkins R. v. Rosenwasser

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, inter alia, in the nature of mandamus, to compel the respondent Stewart A. Rosenwasser, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Orange County, to provide the petitioner with a rehearing and review before a jury of an order of the Supreme Court, Orange County (Berry, J.), dated February 5, 2002, which authorized the petitioner’s continued retention and psychiatric confinement, and to vacate so much of an order issued by him on January 17, 2003, as, upon review of the order dated February 5, 2002, granted the motion of the respondent James Stone, Commissioner of…