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State v. Roberts

Citations

  • 52 P.3d 1123
  • 183 Or. App. 520
  • 2002 Ore. App. LEXIS 1362

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  • recognizing that “fact-matching is not helpful” in the civil commitment context
  • noting that, in determining whether evidence is sufficient to warrant involuntary commitment, “fact-matching is not helpful”
  • recognizing that \fact-matching is not helpful\ in the civil commitment context
  • observing that “[w]hether the evidence in any case is sufficient must be decided on its own facts; fact-matching is not helpful”
  • holding that the appellant was not a danger to self, because wan- dering the streets while unmedicated had never resulted in injury; therefore, civil commitment did not “interrupt[ ] a sequence of events that ha[d], in the past, led to disaster”
  • reversing civil commitment where the appellant “wandered] the streets in a confused state of mind”

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Judges: Landau, Brewer, Schuman

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