Matter of Detention of Chorney

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• patient must first put good faith voluntary status in issue before state must prove patient not a good faith voluntary patient
• because of the potential “curtailment of liberty effected under the civil commitment statute, the right to due process requires the intervention of an impartial third party to ensure that procedural requirements have been met”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).