People v. Foster

*313*1205The Mentally Disordered Offender Act ( Pen. Code, § 2960 et seq. ) authorizes the Board of Parole Hearings to involuntarily commit individuals convicted of certain felony offenses for mental health treatment as a condition of parole. ( Pen. Code, § 2962 ; all undesignated statutory references are to this code.) Commitment as a mentally disordered offender (MDO) may continue even after an offender's parole term has expired, so long as the district attorney makes a showing that the MDO's mental disorder is not in remission **229and that the MDO, because of the disorder, represents a…