California Court of Appeal

The procedures constitutionally required in an appeal by an indigent criminal defendant do not apply to the appeal from an order of commitment under the Mentally Disordered Offender statute pursuant to Penal Code section 2962.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/23/2005
• Published 03/23/2005

Judges

• KRIEGLER, J.*

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Rudy Kraft, 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, Susan Sullivan Pithey and J. Michael Lehmann, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.