Before Loren became a co-host, she was defending people in psychiatric crisis and saving dogs. Whether the first job prepared her for working with Dave is still an open question. (Not really)
In this case, her 68-year-old client was living in a locked psychiatric hospital, asking to see a doctor and for basic care. The system’s response? A third-strike felony threat case that could have sent him to prison for life. Loren went to the preliminary hearing ready to fight. The case was dismissed.
Dave, Nikhil, and Loren get into how a mental health crisis became a criminal case, what the evidence actually showed, and why one dismissal doesn’t fix a system that keeps doing this. On the bright side, Dave is still only a possible case for rescue.
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