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· 10/28/1980

Matter of Snowden

Citations

  • 423 A.2d 188
  • 1980 D.C. App. LEXIS 397

How courts have described this case

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  • declining to adopt the “recent overt act” test, which would help indicate future dangerousness; instead concluding that appellant’s being threatening was enough to find a likelihood to injure self or others
  • “recent overt act” test rejected

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Judges: Gallagher, MacK, Pryor

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