By Hayden Brooks
After
The New York Times Presents documentary, "Framing Britney Spears," further exposed the pop titan's 13-year conservatorship, which sees her father,
Jamie Spears, control her every decision, attorney Lisa MacCarley has stepped up to the plate.
As an expert in conservatorships and probate court, MacCarley, who has been an advocate in the #FreeBritney movement, has called upon her peers to take action for Spears and sign a petition for the legal restraints to be terminated. "On Friday night, the NYTimes premiered a documentary called 'Framing Britney Spears.' Far from being a lightweight exploration of Ms. Spears’ superlative career and tragic personal life, the program gave a subtle but powerful glimpse into the unconstitutional manner in which Ms. Spears’ conservatorship originally devolved," MacCarley wrote in a lengthy message. "Ms. Thoreen’s statement that Conservatee's have ‘sacred rights’ is ironic to the point of absurd. It is irrefutable that an order appointing Sam Ingham was prepared by James Spears’ attorneys and signed on February 1, 2008 by Judge Reva Goetz, who was then commissioner. It is part of the case summary. In other words, one of the ‘sacred rights’ that the California Constitution mentions is the right to Due Process, and the California Probate Code specifies that a person facing conservatorship has the absolute right to be represented by counsel chosen by her, NOT the person seeking to impose a conservatorship."