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IN RE CONSERVATORSHIP OF CAROL K.

No. C061006.

188 Cal.App.4th 123 (2010)

Conservatorship of the Person and Estate of CAROL K.; LYNN FRANK, as Public Guardian, etc., Petitioner and Respondent, v. CAROL K., Objector and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

August 5, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Bernstein, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Objector and Appellant.

Robert A. Ryan, Jr., County Counsel, and Denis J. Zilaff, Deputy County Counsel, for Petitioner and Respondent.

OPINION

RAYE, Acting P. J.—

Once again, we confront a familiar and moral/legal dilemma that the Legislature has attempted to resolve: when should the state intervene to care for the nondangerous mentally ill? This dilemma pits our belief in individual liberties against our desire to protect the helpless, incapacitated individual in need of immediate assistance.

Here, a jury found defendant, 62-year-old Carol K., gravely disabled...

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