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Research batch 17

Batch 17.

Batch 17 (7 Oct 2026) is a cross-cut rather than a jurisdiction: channel 7 (timing) read back across every row in the record, plus one new witness case. It produces the first interval table — the distance in days between the speech act and the psychiatric act — and a pattern about how the law itself converts a hospitalization into impeachment.

consolidated record; no separate original batch file supplied. The full source retains additional narrative, method, bibliography and correction sections.

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Bias: probable cause ended the challenge to two holds

San Leandro / Alameda County, 14 and 23 May 2003; 9th Cir. 28 Nov 2007

A pro se litigant with a pending matter before a judge was placed on two § 5150 holds nine days apart by the same officer; the second application recorded her statement that she would kill herself if the judge ruled against her; she was examined and released the same…

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Mikhail Kosenko’s protest case and compulsory treatment

Moscow, May 2012 protest; trial 2013

Mikhail Kosenko, a Bolotnaya Square defendant with a 12-year outpatient history, had his case severed from the others because investigators sought compulsory psychiatric treatment; a Soviet-era dissident testified he had not fought police; Memorial's Orlov called it a…

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Repeated motions, a capacity petition, and a vexatious-litigant order

Montgomery County, Maryland; Court of Special Appeals unreported 0037s20

In a guardianship case the county health department petitioned for evaluation of the appellant's mental capacity; the court recounted her "numerous frivolous, stream-of-consciousness pleadings," eight pro se motions, declared her a vexatious litigant, enjoined further…

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