In Re the Alleged Mental Illness of Picataci

OPINION

LANSING, Judge.

Joseph Picataci appeals from a January 9, 1985, judgment of commitment. We affirm the finding of mental illness but remand on the question of placement.

FACTS

Picataci, age 31, was admitted as a mentally ill patient at St. Peter State Hospital from February 1984 until June 1984, when he was provisionally discharged. Petitioner Christine Moen Picataci, from whom Pi-cataci was divorced in November 1984, testified that Picataci appeared stable from the time of his discharge until early August 1984. Picataci then stopped taking his prescribed psychotropic medications. He…