By: Derek Hawkins//May 24, 2017//
WI Court of Appeals – District IV
Case Name: Crawford County v. E.K.
Case No.: 2016AP2063
Officials: Blanchard, J.
Focus: Civil Commitment – CH. 51 Commitment
This is an appeal from an involuntary civil commitment proceeding under WIS. STAT. ch. 51. E.K. appeals an order of the circuit court extending involuntary commitment and extending involuntary administration of medication. Specifically, E.K. argues that Crawford County failed to meet its burden under WIS. STAT. § 51.61(1)(g)4. for an extension of an involuntary medication order and that the County should not have been permitted to call E.K., the subject of the proceeding, as a witness to testify against himself. For the following reasons, I affirm.