State v. Hambleton

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the state’s burden in civil commitment cases is “the product of a fundamental recognition of the priority of preserving personal liberties” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• recognizing the tension between pro- tecting personal liberty and the provision of medical help to persons with mental illness
• swimming nude in 40-degree weather was not evidence of dangerousness to self where there was no evidence that the appellant suffered any harm as a result
• excluded as hearsay whether the appellant was found sitting in a truck naked because no one testified to that observation at the hearing
• recent episode of swimming nude in 40 degree weather is insufficient to support commitment where there was no evidence that the appellant had engaged in that conduct before, had suffered any harm, or was likely to suffer any harm if she engaged in that conduct in the future
• recent episode of swimming nude in 40 degree weather is insufficient to support commitment where there was no evidence that the appellant had engaged in that conduct before, had suffered any harm, or was likely to suffer any harm if she engaged in that conduct in the future

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).