{"id":10412,"date":"2024-02-25T18:34:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T23:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10412"},"modified":"2024-04-03T15:55:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T19:55:44","slug":"credible-threats-supported-involuntary-mental-health-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10412","title":{"rendered":"Credible Specific Threats Supported Involuntary Mental Health Commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The appellant told his cousin that he planned to order a gun and ammunition to kill his stepbrother, and those statements were relayed to a physician who considered them to be credible threats and who recommended an extended commitment for treatment in accordance with \u00a7 303 of the Mental Health Procedures Act. The articulation of a specific plan to harm an identified target is sufficient to prove an act in furtherance of a threat to commit harm, and so is sufficient evidence that the appellant posed a clear and present danger of harm to others. <em>In re: S.O.<\/em>, ___ A.3d ___, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A29006-23o%20-%20105843064256127996.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2023 PA Super 31<\/a> (2023).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The appellant told his cousin that he planned to order a gun and ammunition to kill his stepbrother, and those statements were relayed to a physician who considered them to be credible threats and who recommended an extended commitment for &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10412\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[342,341],"class_list":["post-10412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-302-commitment","tag-involuntary-commitment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10412"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10576,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10412\/revisions\/10576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}