<P> During the summer of 1969, Tarasoff went to South America . After her departure Poddar began to improve and at the suggestion of a friend sought psychological assistance . Prosenjit Poddar was a patient of Dr. Lawrence Moore, a psychologist at UC Berkeley's Cowell Memorial Hospital in 1969 . Poddar confided his intent to kill Tarasoff . Dr. Moore requested that the campus police detain Poddar, writing that, in his opinion, Poddar was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, acute and severe . The psychologist recommended that the defendant be civilly committed as a dangerous person . Poddar was detained but shortly thereafter released, as he appeared rational . Dr. Moore's supervisor, Dr. Harvey Powelson, then ordered that Poddar not be subject to further detention . </P> <P> In October, after Tarasoff had returned, Poddar stopped seeing his psychologist . Neither Tarasoff nor her parents received any warning of the threat . Poddar then befriended Tarasoff's brother, even moving in with him . Several weeks later, on October 27, 1969, Poddar carried out the plan he had confided to his psychologist, stabbing and killing Tarasoff . Tarasoff's parents then sued Moore and various other employees of the university . </P> <P> Poddar was subsequently convicted of second - degree murder, but the conviction was later appealed and overturned on the grounds that the jury was inadequately instructed . A second trial was not held, and Poddar was released on the condition that he would return to India . </P> <P> The California Supreme Court found that a mental health professional has a duty not only to a patient, but also to individuals who are specifically being threatened by a patient . This decision has since been adopted by most states in the U.S. and is widely influential in jurisdictions outside the U.S. as well . </P>

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