California Court of Appeal

Trial court's confinement order pursuant to defendant's plea to voluntary manslaughter is reversed where the trial court did not have the authority to impose concurrent periods of confinement in a state hospital since defendant's two commitments arose out of a single act of violence directed at one victim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/14/2005
• Published 12/14/2005

Judges

• TURNER, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Athena Shudde, 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, Jaime L. Fuster, Lance E. Winters, Supervising Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.