People v. Long

The respondent, Jacquelyn Margaret Ann Gardener Long, appeals the order of October 27, 1989, in which the circuit court found her to be a person subject to involuntary admission and ordered her hospitalized in the Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities. The respondent contends that the order must be reversed because the State did not comply with the provisions of the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code (Code) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 911/2, par. 1 — 100 et seq.) inasmuch as the respondent was not served with a notice of hearing set by the court, there was…