Treatment as jeff node is one of the most contentious issues of Mental Health. As you look at our discussion there are informed and panelled views from both sides. There has been many debates on how to implement lawyers law which consist of outpatient treatment. It was named after laura wilcox, a Mental Health worker who had been shot to death by a man who refused treatment. The county r remains the only county to implement the law. There have been other counties in Los Angeles County and other counties who are considering it. Why have they not adopted the law. What is it about forced treatment and the consequences for an allowing refusing treatment. We have a panel who have a knowledge of this subject in some cases because of their professional endeavors and in some cases because of personal experiences and in some cases, both. Let me introduce them. Karen chen is an attorney manager for the San Francisco public defenders office, kathy, whose son battled Mental Illness, can is a subje
Of you in the i immigration area understand what its like. I tried a sanctuary case, i hope there is no other place in america where the authorities create the people that they process the way they do that there may be some jails where they do that. Unless you have seen it, you cannot imagine what goes on and they separate families, they separate families, this is a nation of family values. And so i thought in my youth that someone would come along and reform the immigration status. I may not see it myself the way its going. Just moving to the next question for maurice. Did you feel discouraged in your fight for innocence when you were incarcerated and did you feel like it was you against the system . Yes. I felt that, you know from day one. Because its like, even going through trial, it was like i felt that i had no way, story, even if my story was true, there was no way. My character, from where i was from, it was like, im already guilty. So for intimidation, i didnt feel intimidated
Against him, nothing to point to the fact that this man was in anyway involved in trafficking, of course crystal meth, he was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. So when they said guilty i had never seen a persons face like that. He did understand that word and he was taken in handcuffs and incredulous that this could have happened to him. What happened is he goes to prison and now deportation proceedings begin. I cant remember your original question. I think that immigration and how we are in criminalizing in an effort to deport people is one of the more disgusting and shocking things i saw repeatedly in the course of filming. I think briefly that those of you in the i immigration area understand what its like. I tried a sanctuary case, i hope there is no other place in america where the authorities create the people that they process the way they do that there may be some jails where they do that. Unless you have seen it, you cannot imagine what goes on and they separate familie
The beginning. Even my families, my loved wupz ones that lost. That made me fight more. I never gate gave up my fate. My hope is restored. With that i would like to thank all of our panelist. Thank you. [ applause ] and we are now going to move to our second panel. While they take their seats, this idea of forced treatment versus Constitutional Rights has always been a tension that weve had in our criminal justice system. There is an issue that came up earlier this year that you may have read about involving this implementation of a court that was supposed to treat individuals who were suffering from longterm alcoholism. And the court was set up in a way where individuals were not being arrested for a crime but instead were being jailed for contempt of court as long as 120150 days in jail. My office, when we learned of this, we were not involved in the creation of it, challenged it because we believed that it was unconstitutional because you were not charging people with crimes and you
Losing faith from the system and the police arresting me. The lawyers were the ones that helped me get out and the same people that i needed to help me get out were the ones that i was like mad at. So mad, my madness made me fight. So i stayed fighting but i never felt like it was going to be over. I got a niece that is 23 years old right now, even in 2011 when my case got over turned and i called her and i said i will be home. She said you say that all the time. So i never felt like i was giving up. No matter how much time i got because i knew the facts behind it and it was like the principle facts behind it refused to let me give you no matter what. Even coming home, when my case got accepted. It was like, im going home. It still didnt happen. Im thinking in 60 days the court will, im telling everybody im going home and there is people all the time up in there educating myself about the law, i know is fast to get in there, but when the wheels are turned to come home, its slow. I coul