State v. Sea

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• reversing “basic needs” commitment where evidence disclosed “no meaningful reference for the significance of the loss of ten pounds over a period of several months” and where there was “no evidence that appellant has failed to seek medical treatment when necessary”
• “appellant is a generally self-sufficient individual, who, despite her mental illness, lives on her own, manages her own affairs, including paying her bills, is well groomed, and is generally well spoken”
• “To be ‘clear and convincing,’ evidence must be of ‘extraordinary persuasiveness.’ ” (Citation omitted.)
• “Basic needs are those things necessary to sustain life.” (Internal quotation marks omitted.)
• appellant who was reluctant to go to grocery store and had lost ten pounds should not have been committed based on inability to meet basic needs because there was no evidence that weight loss had affected her health

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).