Legal Opinion
Matter of Sonsteng
Montana Supreme Court
Decided December 22, 1977No. 13719PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harrison
The Montana Department of Institutions, by state psychologist Katherine Gallagher, commenced this action in the District Court, Deer Lodge County, pursuant to Section 38-1312, R.C.M.1947, petitioning for extended detention of respondent at Warm Springs State Hospital. Petitioner sought a declaration that respondent was “seriously mentally ill” and should be committed to a mental health facility for a period not to exceed three months.
Respondent Curtis Sonsteng was first committed to Warm Springs by judicial order in 1951. Although released on convalescent leave in 1959, respondent was…
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