Justice calls for revisions to rules, Mental hygiene system wasteful, Starcher contends

From: Charleston Daily Mail | Date: May 10, 2003| Author: TOBY COLEMAN | Copyright information

The chief justice of the state Supreme Court called on West Virginia lawmakers to take the task of temporarily committing the mentally ill out of the courtroom.

"West Virginia is the only state in the Union where we convene a full-blown hearing just to get a person in crisis due to mental illness into short-term stabilization and treatment," Chief Justice Larry Starcher said Friday in a speech to the state's annual judicial conference. "In every state but West Virginia, certified doct...

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