Thursday, July 10, 1975
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Page Five
Thursday, July 10, 1975 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five
Mental health legislation
restricting patient release
awaits Milliken's approval
(Continued from Page 3)
procedures controlling the re-
lease of mental patients.
Steven Schwartz, an assist-
ant defender for the State Apr-
pellate Defender's office in De-
troit, and the attorney who ar-
gued the McQuillan case last
year before the state supreme
court, thinks the bills are nei-
ther constitutional nor socially
productive.
S C H W A R T Z feels the
new "guilty but mentally ill
plea" will do little more than
give juries the illusion that they
are acting in a humane, pro-
gressive manner, when in fact
the bill is nothing but an avoid-
ance of the real problems fac-
ing the care of the mentally
ill.
In a report he wrote for the
House, analysing the two bills,
Schwartz noted that the ex-
pansion of involuntary commit-
ment criteria "cannot withstand
scrutiny under either recent
constitutional cases . . . or
u n d e r Fourteenth Amend-
ment 'void for vagueness'
tests."
Schwartz described the mea-
sure as "fatally defective bec-
ause it requires no finding of
dangerousness to self or others
in order to deprive an individ-
ual of his or her freedom."
HE concluded that the mea-
sure was "inconsistent with
both this state's goal encourag-
ing voluntary mental health
treatment and expansion of
community facilities as with
the similar national trend, fed-
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Rep. Paul Rosenbaum (D-
Battle Creek), Chairman of the
House Judiciary Committee,
and co-sponsor of the bills, yes-
terday called the libertarian
argument "all wet" and the Mc-
Quillan decision "a travesty in
terms of the present situation
in this state." He claims that
the bills have sufficient consti-
tutional safeguards, and will
eliminate abuse of the NGRI
plea.
"It (opposition to the bill) is
totally nonsensical in the face
of the horrendous crimes that
have been committed in this
state."
STATE Senator Gilbert Burs-
ley (R-Ann Arbor), who voted
for both bills admitted that
their constitutionally is "a very
genuine question" but felt that
in balancing the public safety
with the civil liberties of those
in state institutions, the bills
were in the public interest.
Rep. Perry Bullard (D-Ann
Arbor(, one of only ten House
members who opposed the bills,
said in a statement issued by
his office yesterday that the
laws amount to "support for
making eccentric behavior a
crime."
"The courts have held that
mentally ill people have the
same constitutional rights as
the rest of us, including the
right not to be deprived of
liberty or property without due
process of law," said Bullard.
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