Beiswenger v. Psychiatric Security Review Board

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• concluding that the legislature intended “personality disorder” to include sexual conduct disorders, alcohol dependency, and drug dependency
• concluding that the legislature intended “personality disorder” to include sexual conduct disorders, alcohol dependency, and drug dependency
• stating that it is “plau- sible that the legislature could have intended” the inclusion of these conditions under the term personality disorder”
• reviewing the “original version of the bill [that] did not exclude ‘personality disorders’ from the ‘mental disease[s] or defect[s]’ ” and subsequent revisions to the bill before the final draft
• “ORS 161.295, however, explicitly imposes some limits on the term by describing what is not included * * *.” (Emphasis in original.)
• so holding in the context of how to define “mental disease or defect”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).