Opinion

McDuffie v. Berzzarins

  • 43 Ohio St. 2d 23
  • 72 Ohio Op. 2d 13
  • 330 N.E.2d 667
  • 1975 Ohio LEXIS 534
Court
Ohio Supreme Court
Filed
Jul 2, 1975
Status
Published
Author
Neill
On the bench
Brown, Celebbbzze, Corrigan, Herbert, Neill, Stern
Cited by
20 cases
Authority
More cited than 15.1%

holding collateral consequences subsequent to involuntary confinement permitted petition be heard in that narrow context only

How later courts described this case

  • holding collateral consequences subsequent to involuntary confinement permitted petition be heard in that narrow context only
  • holding commitment issue not moot due to collateral consequences
  • “The touchstone of our examination is that a waiver of this sort must be knowingly and intelligently made.”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

O’Neill, C. J.,

concurring. I concur for the reasons stated in my dissenting opinion in In re Popp (1973), 35 Ohio St. 2d 142 , at page 146.

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