In Re Detention of As

How courts have described this case

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• reasonable degree of professional certainty speaks not to competence to testify but correlation between facts and expert's opinion
• dicta; noting that commitment proceedings generally rely on medical experts whose opinions are based on \reasonable medical certainty\ and not absolute certainty
• reasonable degree of professional certainty speaks not to competence to testify but correlation between facts and expert’s opinion
• “the spirit and intent of the [civil commitment statutes] should prevail over the letter of the law so as to avoid strained or absurd consequences”
• motions to dismiss involving pure questions of law are reviewed de novo
• social worker may testify to the existence of a mental disorder

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).