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
Representation also continues with if the person is asked to be stayed or referred for further treatment up to 14 days. During this phase, the attorneys will represent the clients about whether or not they will have to stay on this hold, whether they have to take medications. If a person after at the end of the 14 day hold is found that may need further treatment, the person maybe subject to a conservatorship under the act of the conservator in the california constitution code and representation continues and after an initial established conservatorship such as objection to the conservatorship and also propose medical and psychiatric treatment. One of the things that in San Francisco that is up to 2012 we are one of the three counties that consistently offers judicial review when there is a recommendation to take away someones right to refuse medications. The law requires that anyone even in involuntary commit a person the right to refuse psychiatric medication in a nonemergency situat
Supposed to have been done from 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 cha
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 couldnt accept it. People are like they are going to do this to time. I said no, this is clear. This was what was supposed to have been done from 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