Rosenfeld Secures Mental Health Client s Release from Lockdown Facility; After a Year s Battle in Appellate Court, Appeal Finally Won for Man Who Shot Big Sur Firefighter prweb.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from prweb.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Rosenfeld Wins Appeal for Mental Health Client; Courts Again to Reconsider Sentence Modification for Man Who Shot Big Sur Firefighter
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A California man sentenced to time in a lockdown mental health facility and twice denied modification to that sentence will again have his request for sentence modification reconsidered. Deeming that the Superior Court of Monterey County neglected a second time to align its decision with the terms of a plea agreement, California’s Sixth District Court of Appeal issued a peremptory writ of mandate commanding the court to vacate its recent order to deny Jacob Thomas Kirkendall’s motion to be released into a step-down mental health facility and once again to reconsider this request.
States With the Highest Rates of Depression
By Andrew Lisa, Stacker News
On 12/13/20 at 11:00 AM EST
Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). Those who suffer from it are at much greater risk for things like metabolic and cardiovascular disease, and the global economy loses $1 trillion in lost productivity every year to anxiety and depression disorders alone. Substance abuse is more prevalent among people with depression, as is suicide. Young people, who are more than twice as likely to drop out of school when they suffer from depression, are especially vulnerable.