Public Guardian of Sonoma County v. E.H. CA1/4

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

In its Conservatorship Investigation Report filed with the trial court in 2010 (Investigation Report), the Pubic Conservator indicated that E.H. had initially been diagnosed as schizophrenic in 1996 at age 22 and had been conserved on two previous occasions prior to the establishment of the Murphy conservatorship that is the subject of these proceedings. Specifically, E.H. was conserved in 2002 after he was observed throwing bullets at some young men in a parking lot. E.H.’s mother reported at that time that her son was not medicated, was delusional, and displayed paranoid behavior. Moreover, E.H. reportedly believed that “ ‘aliens had landed’ ” and that he had “ ‘an x- wing fighter in his head that depletes his memory.’ ” E.H. was integrated back into the community in 2005, but was conserved a second time in 2006 after he disclosed that he had stopped taking his psychotropic medications and that “voices were telling him to do violent things that he felt powerless to refuse.” E.H. apparently showed no insight into his mental illness during this conservatorship and refused voluntary medication. He was placed in a board and care facility, where…