Legal Opinion
In Re Moye
California Supreme Court
Decided October 17, 1978No. Docket Nos. Crim. 20330, 20331, 20332PublishedCited by 132 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
RICHARDSON, J.
In these consolidated cases only one issue is presented for our determination: May a person who is committed to the Department of Health following his acquittal of criminal charges because of insanity be held in the department’s custody for a period in excess of the maximum term provided for the underlying offense of which he was charged and acquitted? (See Pen. Code, § 1026; all further statutoiy references are to that code, unless otherwise cited.) We have concluded that well established constitutional principles of equal protection require that the duration of…
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