California Court of Appeal

Order committing defendant to the Department of Mental Health (DMH) for treatment as a mentally disordered offender (MDO) is reversed where there was insufficient evidence defendant suffered from the severe mental disorder of pedophilia.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/15/2005
• Published 11/15/2005

Judges

• PERREN, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Danalynn Pritz, Encino, 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, Mary Sanchez, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Thomas C. Hsieh, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.