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A hospital refused to let appointed counsel visit
A San Diego hospital refused appointed counsel access to a patient it said had not requested a lawyer. After a habeas writ issued, she was discharged near the end of her fourteen-day certification.
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What the record says
California case and incident register · Batch 1
- Date
- 19 Jul–4 Aug 1969
- People / institutions
- San Diego private psychiatric hospital (Thorn petitioners); Defenders, Inc.; Superior Court
- Mechanism
- 5250
- Allegation
- Hospital refused appointed counsel access to a certified patient who, it said, had not asked for a lawyer
- Finding or outcome
- Patient discharged near the end of certification once a writ issued; Supreme Court upheld the court's standing order (Thorn, 1970)
- Open questions
- Not retaliation — but a documented early instance of a facility controlling a detained person's access to counsel
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Reference and provenance
1969-CA-SD-GREEN