Lawanda Sockey (left) with sister, Teresa in better days

But then their mother died in 2009, which seemed to act as a trigger for Lawanda's addiction. "Little by little she started losing weight," says Teresa Flynn, Lawanda's sister. "You couldn't tell she was on drugs. I couldn't tell. And then little by little my family would tell me, 'She's doing something.' I started really noticing this year."

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Hunt Library

First, its operating hours were reduced until it was only open on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the week. Then came its closure in late March after an emergency meeting of the Library Board of Trustees cited increasingly dangerous conditions.

Just last week, the Fullerton city council voted to begin the process of leasing the property to Grace Ministries International, a massive Korean-American church compound adjacent to the Hunt. In between all of this, more and more homeless people began camping out near the train tracks around the bend of the library. Now, on short notice, Fullerton police plan to have the area fully cleared out today.

That would put Mott's daily malt liquor intake somewhere in the 240 to 280 ounce range, enough to keep his 55-year-old body in a state of perpetual inebriation, a condition that the Orange County District Attorney's office has now officially concluded caused his death within a day of being incarcerated.

Surprisingly, the documentary is upbeat and shows Californians living full lives despite mental illness. The film's goal is to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness and get more people to come in for treatment.

That's the amount an Orange County jury awarded him on Feb. 13, after finding that Integrated Healthcare Holdings, Inc, (IHHI) the company that owns the hospital where Fitzgibbons works, Western Medical Center, had retaliated against him for questioning the company's business practices and patient care standards--even planting a gun in his car in an effort to discredit him.

But IHHI appealed the verdict and yesterday a new judge issued a stunning ruling in the case.