Case ID: or-app_256/html/0350-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Submitted March 1,
    reversed April 17, 2013
    In the Matter of D. B., Alleged to be a Mentally Ill Person. STATE OF OREGON, Respondent, v. D. B., Appellant.
    
    Morrow County Circuit Court
    11M003; A149461
    300 P3d 260
    Michael Breiling filed the brief for appellant.
    Ellen F. Rosenblum, Attorney General, Anna M. Joyce, Solicitor General, and Andrew M. Lavin, Assistant Attorney General, filed the brief for respondent.
    Before Ortega, Presiding Judge, and Sercombe, Judge, and Hadlock, Judge.
    PER CURIAM
   PER CURIAM

Appellant seeks reversal of the trial court’s judgment committing him as a mentally ill person for a period not to exceed 180 days. ORS 426.130. In his third assignment of error, he contends that the trial court erred in denying him counsel “or alternatively, in allowing him to waive his rights to counsel without sufficient inquiry.” See ORS 426.100(3). The state concedes that the trial court erred in allowing appellant to represent himself at the involuntary commitment hearing without an express waiver and that, accordingly, the trial court’s judgment should be reversed. We agree, accept the state’s concession, and reverse on that basis. Accordingly, we do not address appellant’s first and second assignments of error.

Reversed.