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PEOPLE v. BARRETT

No. S180612.

54 Cal.4th 1081 (2012)

281 P.3d 753

144 Cal. Rptr. 3d 661

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. CHRISTINE BARRETT, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

July 30, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jean Matulis , under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Deborah A. Dorfman and Sujatha Jagadeesh Branch for Disability Rights California, ARC of California, Capitol People First, Professor Robert Jacobs, Professor Michael Perlin and Olivia Raynor as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr. , and Kamala D. Harris , Attorneys General, Dane R. Gillette , Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler , Assistant Attorney General, Laurence K. Sullivan , Dorian Jung , Seth K. Schalit and Lisa H. Ashley Ott , Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

BAXTER, J.

Christine Barrett is an adult who has long been diagnosed with mental retardation and other mental disorders, and who has lived in the community while being supported and supervised by others. Because of her increasingly violent behavior, Barrett became the subject of this proceeding to civilly commit her as a "mentally retarded person" who is a "danger" to herself or others. (Welf. & Inst. Code,1 §...

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