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
You went through a parents nightmare with your son diagnosed with schizophrenia and now held accountable for the death of a man. How is your understanding the need for this law and the need for treatment . My experiences that our Current Mental Health system is based on crisis management. From what i have seen with people like my son and people that cant recognize their illness and arent willing to take their medication, it just does not work. Too many of our mentally ill end up on the streets and in the criminal justice system. These are pictures of my son and another mothers son. We wanted to share with you so you can have an insight to our lives and our sons lives. My son could have never harmed anybody. The other son has lived on the streets for four years now. This mom told me when he was firstborn how beautiful he was. He was a 4. 0 student, he was extremely bright and invited to all the top schools. He now lives in city parks and on the street. Both of our families tried despera
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 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
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 are jailing people for contempt of court when legally they hadnt failed to come to court because in most of these cases they had simply been served with citations. So the legal challenge is f