By Bob Walsh
At the time of his death last August Michael Stanley Galliher, 49, was 6-1 and weighed 172 pounds. He dropped dead six days after being transferred to the California Medical Facility (a state prison) at Vacaville from a state mental hospital. The coroner says he essentially starved to death. (The state prison doctors are in disagreement about the cause of death.)
His mommy says that he was a paranoid schizophrenic and was afraid to eat in the company of others. She asserts the state knew about this and should have arrangedfor him to eat in private. Like room service I guess.
Galliher had been in the prison system for murdering his cousin. He was shipped to the nut farm when his mental health deteriorated, and then shipped back when he got better. Sort of I guess.
A second, independent pathologist has backed up the coroner. They assert the dead guy had zero food of any kind in his GI system and critically low blood sugar, as well as other markers commonly associated with death by starvation.
His mommy is, of course, suing the state. She may even have a legit case.
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