In Re the Mental Health of L.K.-S.

¶1 Respondent and Appellant L.K.-S. appeals from the Order of the Ninth Judicial District Court, involuntarily committing her to the Montana State Hospital (MSH). The sole issue on appeal is whether the District Court erred in committing L.K.-S. to MSH in violation of her right to a jury trial.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

¶2 L.K.-S. is a resident of Choteau, Montana, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. She has been involuntarily committed four times in the past, and many of the people involved in this case have had previous experience with her in similar proceedings.

¶3 On May 26,…