Legal Opinion
In Re Fleming
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided July 3, 1981PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WERNICK, Justice.
David Fleming appeals from the judgment of the Superior Court (Penobscot County) denying his Petition for Release from a mental health hold at the Bangor Mental Health Institute. Mr. Fleming’s Petition for Release was filed pursuant to 15 M.R.S.A. § 104-A, which states in relevant part that if following a hearing
“the court finds that the person may be released or discharged, without likelihood that he will cause injury to himself or to others due to mental disease or mental defect”,
the court shall order the release of the petitioner. Such release may be subject to conditions…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- State v. ShackfordSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1970
3Cited by26 opinions
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