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Chasse Death Cited in Involuntary Detention

Multnomah County’s commitment court ruled at the end of 2006 that an allegedly mentally ill woman should be locked in a psychiatric hospital, because it would be safer than wandering the streets like James Chasse—where the person risked being “beaten to death” by cops, according to the judge. The Oregon State Appeals Court overturned the […]

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