Opinion

Matter of Alexander

  • 26 Or. App. 943
  • 554 P.2d 524
  • 1976 Ore. App. LEXIS 1909
Court
Court of Appeals of Oregon
Filed
Sep 27, 1976
Status
Published
Author
Tanzer
On the bench
Schwab, Tanzer, Sloan
Cited by
21 cases
Authority
More cited than 6.2%

holding, under a reasonable doubt standard, evidence insufficient to support commitment where the only evidence about dangerousness to self was that the allegedly mentally ill person once said she would like to be dead and another witness believed there would be a problem with suicide if the person lived alone

How later courts described this case

  • holding, under a reasonable doubt standard, evidence insufficient to support commitment where the only evidence about dangerousness to self was that the allegedly mentally ill person once said she would like to be dead and another witness believed there would be a problem with suicide if the person lived alone

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

TANZER, J.,

specially concurring.

I specially concur on the same grounds as are set out in my specially concurring opinion in State v. Heintz, 26 Or App 935 , 554 P2d 556 (September 27, 1976).

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