This is the property of the Daily Journal Corporation and fully protected by copyright. It is made available only to Daily Journal subscribers for personal or collaborative purposes and may not be distributed, reproduced, modified, stored or transferred without written permission. Please click "Reprint" to order presentation-ready copies to distribute to clients or use in commercial marketing materials or for permission to post on a website. and copyright (showing year of publication) at the bottom.
Subscribe to the Daily Journal for access to Daily Appellate Reports, Verdicts, Judicial Profiles and more...

Juvenile

Apr. 20, 1999

At Eastlake, Obstacles Are Enormous

It's 8 p.m. and she's already spent 10 hours in juvenile court. Cynthia Cohan is frantic. The father of one of her clients, a 17-year-old girl with mental health problems, has just died and officials won't let the child out to go to the funeral.

By Cheryl Romo
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        It's 8 p.m. and she's already spent 10 hours in juvenile court.
        Cynthia Cohan is frantic. The father of one of her clients, a 17-year-old girl with mental health problems, has just died and officials won't let the child out to go to the funeral.
&nbs...

To continue reading, please subscribe.
For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
Receive unlimited article access and full access to our archives,
Daily Appellate Report, award winning columns, and our
Verdicts and Settlements.
Or
$795 for an entire year!

Or access this article for $45
(Purchase provides 7-day access to this article. Printing, posting or downloading is not allowed.)

Already a subscriber?

Sign up for Daily Journal emails