Mental Commitment and the Principle of Equivalence

Authors

Stephen E. Oliver

Abstract

This comment advances the argument—herein referred to as the principle of equivalence—that because these trial and commitment proceedings are analytically more similar than different, the same standards of due process should be applied to each.

First Page

733

Recommended Citation

Stephen E. Oliver, Comment, Mental Commitment and the Principle of Equivalence, 51 Wash. L. Rev. 733 (1976).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/wlr/vol51/iss3/14