Dennis Buthy v. The Commissioner of the Office of Mental Health of New York State, the Director of the Gowanda Psychiatric Center

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• applying test of \rational means to serve a legitimate end\ to reject equal protection challenge to more onerous restrictions on hospitalized insanity acquittees than on civilly committed patients, where fact of confinement was not challenged
• applying Due Process Clause protections afforded to pre-trial detainees to persons confined due to incompetence to stand trial or acquittal by reason of insanity
• applying the level of protection afforded to pre-trial detainees under the Due Process Clause to persons confined due to an acquittal by reason of insanity or their incompetence to stand trial
• petitioning for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to § 2254 is the appropriate method for an individual to challenge the fact or duration of his involuntary civil commitment to a state psychiatric institution
• petitioning for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to § 2254 is the appropriate method for an individual to challenge the fact or duration of his involuntary civil commitment to a state psychiatric institution
• petitioning for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to § 2254 is the appropriate method for an individual to challenge the fact or duration of his involuntary civil commitment to a state psychiatric institution

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