CONSERVATORSHIP OF EARLY

Docket No. S.F. 24580.

35 Cal.3d 244 (1983)

673 P.2d 209

197 Cal. Rptr. 539

Conservatorship of the Person and Estate of JOEL PATRICK EARLY. STEVEN B. PLUMER, as Public Guardian, etc., Petitioner and Respondent, v. JOEL PATRICK EARLY, Objector and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

December 22, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Quin Denvir, State Public Defender, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, and Anna Jovanovich, Deputy State Public Defender, for Objector and Appellant.

George Deukmejian and John K. Van de Kamp, Attorneys General, Robert H. Philibosian, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Arnold O. Overoye, Assistant Attorney General, Gregory W. Baugher and Jana L. Tuton, Deputy Attorneys General, for Petitioner and Respondent.


OPINION

THE COURT.

The underlying issue in this case concerns the nature of the evidence which a jury properly may consider in determining whether a person is "gravely disabled" and, therefore, subject to a conservatorship proceeding and possible involuntary confinement under the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (LPS Act). (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 5000 et seq.; unless otherwise designated, all further statutory references are to...

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