[Dead Corpse]

Person in the lead article was never committed by a judge, was there voluntarily, left voluntarily, and was not a felon.

Only a nurses note that said she thought this person was “suicidal”. Not a doctor, not an adjudicator... a Nurse.

This is a really bad precedent. Ignoring it isn’t going to make it go away. An appeal to a hopelessly broken “legal system” isn’t real brilliant either. I say “legal system” as “justice” no longer has anything to do with it...

[Carry_Okie]

I agree completely with your assessment of this case, but as to the "legal system," in system design we have to start somewhere. I'd say it's our socialized education system at fault there, not the legal system architecture (which has its faults elsewhere).

I just don't think that with the cost of incarceration and treatment there would be so many errors in a system to adjudicate commitment for insanity that it would be a major problem.