An Oakland County judge rejected a request to appoint a guardian to oversee a Farmington Hills woman who was cleared last year of charges she murdered her husband with amateur surgery.
Concerns were expressed in court about the ability of Laura Lynn Johnson, 46, to comprehend ongoing proceedings in which authorities are seeking to permanently sever her parental rights to her two sons from a previous marriage. The boys, ages 8 and 10, were removed from her custody after the Sept. 22 death of Johnson's second husband, attorney Lloyd G. Johnson, 47.
Lloyd Johnson died two days after being hospitalized with a heart attack, but Laura Johnson was charged with second-degree murder and practicing medicine without a license after police found bloody sheets, human tissue and a dead dog in the couple's Farmington Hills home.
She was released and the charges dropped when an autopsy determined Lloyd Johnson died from complications related to a lingering wound from an old boating accident.
It was disclosed in a 2009 court filing that Laura Johnson had a diagnosed mental illness of paranoid personality disorder with schizophrenic features and an addiction to pain medication.
[Judge]Hallmark declined to appoint a guardian for Laura Johnson, but referred concerns about her behavior to her lawyer Deborah McKelvy.
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Interesting story and I'm surprised she didn't get snared in the guardianship trap.
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