Court Opinion

ID: 9557747
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 16:56:49.241728+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:06:34.369911
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*62TANZER, J.,
dissenting.
I would affirm the trial court judgment. The transcript reflects hallucinatory and hostile, threatening behavior. The examining psychologist concluded that the petitioner had a thought disorder of significant proportion and that there was significant evidence of delusional content, based upon which he recommended hospitalization. The examining psychiatrist recommended hospitalization on the basis of her conclusion that petitioner suffered from:
"Psychosis with delusional state
Differential 1. Affective Disorder, manic phase
2. Schizophrenia, paranoid type
[Patient] is unable to care for himself & is in danger due to his threatening hostile behavior.”
I am particularly unwilling to set aside an order of involuntary commitment by the trial judge who not only had this expert evidence before him, but in addition had the opportunity to perceive at firsthand the petitioner’s appearance and conduct. We do the petitioner no favor by holding that he should have been put back on the streets.