Earlier today, 26-year-old former U.S. Marine Brandon Raub was released from a psychiatric facility via a judge’s order, who ruled that the government had no legal grounds to hold him.
Tonight on Glenn Beck’s show on GBTV, soon-to-become TheBlazeTV, John Whitehead, Raub’s lead attorney and president of the Rutherford Institute, gave his first interview following his client’s release to discuss the case.
Whitehead told Beck that he and his organization are planning to sue
over a provision in Virginia state law that allows authorities to place a
person in emergency custody and hold them for four hours unless a
magistrate enters a temporary detention order (TDO). Raub was held under
this law, specifically Va. Code § 37.2-808, for days.
“We are getting ready to file a civil lawsuit…because [Raub] has been
put through hell for a week,” said Whitehead. But, he explained, “Under
the civil commitment law in Virginia, the police can do this.”
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