Conservatorship of A.G. CA6

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Conservatee was charged in 2003 with several Penal Code violations due to an incident in which he allegedly brandished a knife, threatened a neighbor with it, fled in his mother’s car, and resisted arrest. The court suspended the criminal proceedings and

1 Unspecified statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code. committed conservatee to Napa State Hospital pursuant to Penal Code section 1370. After three years there, hospital staff determined he could not be restored to competence and returned him to the Santa Clara County Jail’s mental health unit. In conjunction with conservatee’s return to jail, the public guardian petitioned for appointment of an LPS conservator. In support of the petition, the public guardian submitted a report by a physician who examined conservatee, diagnosed him with chronic schizophrenia, and recommended conservatorship. The report detailed the following symptoms and behavior: paranoid delusions, psychosis, auditory hallucinations, failure to cooperate with staff, threats to kill staff, and poor self-control. The report concluded that conservatee would be unable to provide for food,…