Legal Opinion
In Re Qawi
California Supreme Court
Decided January 5, 2004No. S100099PublishedCited by 161 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*9Opinion
MORENO, J.
The Mentally Disordered Offender Act (MDO Act), enacted in 1985, requires that offenders who have been convicted of violent crimes related to their mental disorders, and who continue to pose a danger to society, receive mental health treatment during and after the termination of their parole until their mental disorder can be kept in remission. (Pen. Code, § 2960 et seq.) Although the nature of an offender’s past criminal conduct is one of the criteria for treatment as a mentally disordered offender (MDO), the MDO Act itself is not punitive or penal in nature. (People v.…
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