Supreme Court of Illinois

In a hearing on involuntary admission of a mental patient, an order extending the commitment is reversed where the statutory requirement of testimony from an expert who had personally examined the patient had not been met because the expert witness had never been directly involved in the patient's treatment and had not met with him personally for purposes of the hearing. With regard to a different patient, the order for involuntary admission was affirmed where the expert witness was a licensed clinical psychologist employed at the facility to which the patient had initially been brought and had personal knowledge of the patient's condition.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/01/2004
• Published 04/01/2004

Judges

• Justice RARICK delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Anthony E. Rothert, Alton, Elvis C. Cameron and Jeff M. Plesko, Anna, for appellants., Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield (Gary Feinerman, Solicitor General, Linda D. Woloshin and Mary Beth Burns, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People.