Conservatorship of the Person and Estate of SUSAN T.
LAKE COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT, Petitioner and Respondent,
v.
SUSAN T., Objector and Appellant.
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December 8, 1994.
December 8, 1994.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
COUNSEL
David B. Harrison, under appointment by the Supreme Court, and Mat Zwerling for Objector and Appellant.
Carmela F. Simoncini and Joe Simanek as Amici Curiae on behalf of Objector and Appellant.
Cameron L. Reeves, County Counsel, Richard H. Magnuson and J. Ross Walker, Deputy County Counsel, for Petitioner and Respondent.
Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Ronald A. Bass, Assistant Attorney General, Ronald E. Niver and Clifford K. Thompson, Deputy Attorneys General, John J. Meehan, District Attorney (Alameda), William M. Baldwin, Assistant District Attorney, and Anthony Douglas, Deputy District Attorney, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner and Respondent.
Supreme Court of California.
OPINION
WERDEGAR, J.
After investigating a treating physician's report that Susan T.1 was a schizophrenic and a danger to herself and to others, the Lake County Mental Health Department (department) dispatched a crisis services worker to Susan T.'s home. She was living amidst bagged human and animal waste, without water, heat or electricity. She was taken to a psychiatric hospital. Several hours later...
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