My apologies. It looks like the threads you’ve created fall into two camps: fairly mundane and straightforward questions, and wildly hypothetical ones. This looked to be (and was stated much the same as) one of the latter. That you asked about a potentially serious legal situation on a public message board made it seem more likely to be a hypothetical.
Was it 1993, 1995, or 1996? You have said each date once.
Anyhow, I think it also depends on the kind of “danger to others” you were. If you had a stated plan to harm or murder someone specific, the authorities would have had more call to keep looking for you. Same as if you had actually done so. But if you were a general menace to society, as they were once called, then I think that’s something different altogether.
At least it was when I worked on an IP unit many years ago.
Okay, the thread about me mudering and raping a seventeen year old was completely hypothetical. The other one was based on a muder that occued in my area. When the police ruled it a murder and they were waiting for an autopsy to come in, I was wondering how they knew she was murdered without an autopsy and whether she could have died of a heart attack.
I was hospitalized once in 1991 and discharged, once in 1993 and discharged, once again in 1993 and ran away, and then once in 1996 from a different mental hospital and ran away. I don’t think I was ever hospitalized in 1995. Because a doctor in 1996 labed me a danger to myself or others because of my psycosis and I was never “cured”, could I be put back in because of what the doctor said in 1996?
IANAD and IANAL, but I would think no. You have to be an immediate threat to yourself or another person. At least that is true where I live. Here is a state-by-state chart of commitment laws.
At what point did I become not an immediate threat to myself or someone else? Was it the point that I escaped? One year after? One decade after?