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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedDisruptive behavior allows local police to bring man to psychiatric hospital.(Must v. West Hills Police Department)
Mental Health Law Report, April, 2005
Must v. West Hills Police Department,
March 16, 2005
3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Unpublished, No. 03-4491
The court found ample evidence that a man with apparent mental illness committed criminal offenses and concluded that police officers had probable cause to take him into custody.
Dale Must had little standing to make a claim against the police department because the officers transported him to a hospital for evaluation on three separate occasions, the court found.
"Must has failed to direct our attention to case law that would have put the Officers on notice that his indisputably strange behavior did not rise to a level justifying an involuntary psychiatric evaluation," the court wrote.
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