California Court of Appeal

Trial court's judgment committing defendant to the Department of Mental Health for treatment as a mentally disordered offender (MDO) under the mentally disordered offender (MDO) Act for his conviction of possessing destructive devices is affirmed as possession of a "Molotov cocktail" is an offense involving an implied threat to use force or violence under the MDO Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/15/2010
• Published 03/15/2010

Judges

• GILBERT, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Gerald J. Miller, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Keith H. Borjon, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, A. Scott Hayward, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.