I was baker acted at the time. While at the hospital I refused all treatment while there. I asked for a phone call to contact a family member and I was refused the phone call. I also asked for my writ of habeas corpus and it was refused. I asked for the sheriffs department to come to try and get the process going to go see a judge and I was refused that service also. They wanted to draw blood to see what my blood alcohol content was and I still refused it without a family member or a lawyer being there to advise me. I also asked to contact an attorney and I was refused to use the phone again. I asked for something to eat and drink while into the ordeal and was refused. The only thing that I could do to get something to drink, eat or make a phone call was to give into their demands for the blood test. I wasn't there for breaking any law whatsoever. After I gave into their demands I was still not granted a phone call. Do you think any of my civil writes were violated?
Not inherently no. You were there for a mental health evaluation under some serious allegations associated with Baker Act criteria. Unfortunately, your credibility is not going to be very good in relation to the factual issues, and the clinical issues are in large part addressed by the medical/psychiatric staff within the Baker Act procedures. Unless you have lots of money to invest on a investigation to examine whether there were some documentable improprieties, this simply won't go very far absent some other compelling facts.
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