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Name: Conservatorship of B.K. – Depublished
Case #: B343506
Division: 4
Opinion Date: 20260128
Subsequent History: Ordered depublished 4/29/26 (S295476)
Summary

The trial court did not err in accepting B.K.’s waiver of a jury trial even though the court did not inquire regarding B.K.’s understanding of that right. Unlike the MDO and NGI schemes, the LPS statutory scheme does not reference jury trial waivers and does not reflect a preference for jury trials over court trials. Even if the trial court had erred in accepting the jury trial waiver, the error was harmless because B.K. could not show that it was reasonably probable that she would have received a more favorable result in the absence of the error.