California Court of Appeal

Res judicata bars the prosecution from retrying defendant as a mentally disordered offender (MDO) based on the same qualifying offense, and the judgment committing defendant to the California Department of Mental Health as an MDO.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/09/2003
• Published 09/09/2003

Judges

• GILBERT, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Kent Douglas Baker, San Diego, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Steven D. Matthews, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Mary Sanchez, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.