North Carolina · state appellate court · 2023
Court of Appeals of North Carolina, 18 April 2023. What the court wrote about citations that did not exist, in its own words, from the document on file.
Case record · N.C. Ct. App.
Retrieved · the text below was read from the source documents on that day.
The passages in which the court addresses the fabricated authority, verbatim, by document. A bracketed ellipsis marks where a passage was cut for length; nothing else is changed.
IN RE: D.H. Opinion of the Court 2 On 28 March 2022, Respondent’s father executed an Affidavit and Petition for Involuntary Commitment alleging, inter alia, that Respondent was “hearing voices[,]” hallucinating, “riding around the city of Raleigh displaying odd [b]ehaviors[ ,]” and refusing to participate in therapy or take his medication. The magistrate ordered that Respondent be taken into custody later that day.
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