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CONSERVATORSHIP OF ROULET

Docket No. L.A. 30730.

23 Cal.3d 219 (1979)

590 P.2d 1

152 Cal. Rptr. 425

Conservatorship of the Person and the Estate of MABEL ROULET. MAY MORRISON HEAP, as Conservator, etc., Petitioner and Respondent, v. MABEL ROULET, Objector and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

February 6, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Glen Mowrer, Jr., Public Defender, Gilbert W. Lentz and Richard Savidge, Deputy Public Defenders, for Objector and Appellant.

Paul Halvonik, State Public Defender, Charles M. Sevilla, Chief Assistant State Public Defender, Quin Denvir, Richard E. Shapiro and Paul D. Fogel, Deputy State Public Defenders, Sheldon Portman, Estella W. Dooley, Samuel L. Williams and Richard J. Kamins as Amici Curiae on behalf of Objector and Appellant.

George P. Kading, County Counsel, and Marvin Levine, Deputy County Counsel, for Petitioner and Respondent.

Keith C. Sorenson, District Attorney (San Mateo), and Joseph H. Clasgens III, Deputy District Attorney, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner and Respondent.

OPINION

BIRD, C.J.

In this case, the court must decide if proof beyond a reasonable doubt and a unanimous jury verdict are the proper standards to apply before a conservator can be appointed under the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act's (LPS Act) grave disability provisions,1 with the power to involuntarily commit a conservatee to a state mental institution for up to a year.

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