Does a person have a constitutional right to be held in a mental health institution?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Barnes, D071301 (Cal. App. 2017):
constitutional right where tailored to the purposes of rehabilitation and deterring future criminality]; People v. Lopez (1998) 66 Cal.App.4th 615, 624-626 [same].)5
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