San Diego

Carol Brawley, the defense lawyer whose sudden disappearance provoked a mistrial in a murder case last week, showed up on a friend’s doorstep over the weekend and has been admitted to a psychiatric hospital.

Brawley, who failed to appear for an ongoing trial last Tuesday and had not been seen by co-workers for four days, went to the Pacific Beach home of attorney Nancy Rosenfeld at 12:30 a.m. Saturday, according to Kay Sunday, Brawley’s supervisor at Community Defenders Inc.

Dressed in her court attire from Tuesday, Brawley was “very disoriented” and asked to go to a hospital, Sunday said. She was taken to Mesa Vista Hospital, Sunday said, but her condition had not been determined by late Monday.

Brawley had not been physically harmed, and there were no indications of foul play, according to Sunday.

Pending her hospital treatment, Superior Court Judge G. Dennis Adams recalled a bench warrant he issued for Brawley’s arrest Wednesday, when she failed to show up for a second day for the trial of her client, Glenda Virgil. Virgil is accused of murder in the shotgun killing of her common-law husband, Mark Garrett, in Dulzura last November.