Legal Opinion
In Re Morris
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided September 24, 1984No. 83-594PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROGERS, Associate Judge:
This appeal arises under the D.C. Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill Act (Act), (D.C.Code §§ 21-501, -592 (1981)). Appellant assigns as error the trial court’s refusal to declare invalid his initial detention pursuant to an application which failed to comply with the Act. He also requests this court to order Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital to amend its records to reflect that the initial detention was illegal and that everything flowing therefrom is null and void. We hold that the initial detention was null and void and remand the case to the trial court for entry of an…
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