Legal Opinion
In re Loveton
California Court of Appeal
Decided February 11, 2016No. A142096PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
KLINE, P. J.
This case involves the transfer of defendants who have been found mentally incompetent to stand trial (1ST) to the State Department of State Hospitals (DSH or Department) for treatment. Penal Code section 1370 1 sets forth the required procedure for making this transfer. Here, the Contra Costa County Public Defender represented six 1ST defendants (collectively petitioners) in a consolidated action arising from individual petitions for writ of habeas corpus (writ petitions), in which petitioners requested that the trial court order DSH to admit 1ST defendants from Contra…
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