California Court of Appeal

District attorneys may initiate civil commitment proceedings, under the Mentally Disordered Offender Act, only when the director of the facility providing the prisoner's treatment states in a written evaluation that the prisoner's severe mental disorder is not in remission, or cannot be kept in remission without treatment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/11/2005
• Published 03/11/2005

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Susan S. Bauguess, Running Springs, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Elizabeth S. Voorhies, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.