# Matter of Alexander

> Court of Appeals of Oregon · September 27, 1976 · 26 Or. App. 943

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9577418

## Case

- **Full name:** In the Matter of Caroline Alexander, Alleged to Be a Mentally Ill Person. STATE OF OREGON, Respondent, v. CAROLINE ALEXANDER, Appellant
- **Court:** Court of Appeals of Oregon
- **Decided:** September 27, 1976
- **Citations:** 26 Or. App. 943; 554 P.2d 524; 1976 Ore. App. LEXIS 1909
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Tanzer
- **Judges:** Schwab, Tanzer, Sloan
- **Cited by:** 21 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- 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…

## Opinion text

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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