C.S. v. B.C. (In Re Conservatorship the Pers. of B.C.)

*1030 In *182 Conservatorship of Heather W. (2016) 245 Cal.App.4th 378 , 381, 199 Cal.Rptr.3d 689 , ( Heather W. ) we held that in conservatorship proceedings under the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (LPS Act) "the trial court must obtain a personal waiver of a jury trial from the conservatee, even when the conservatee expresses no preference for jury trial." We joined a growing line of cases holding that jury waivers must be secured from individuals facing a substantial loss of personal freedom in civil commitment proceedings aimed at "protecting the public and treating severely mentally ill persons." (…