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PEOPLE v. LIPSCOMB

Docket No. 13411.

263 Cal.App.2d 59 (1968)

69 Cal. Rptr. 127

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. RALPH THEODORE LIPSCOMB, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Two.

June 13, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Miller, Jr., for Defendant and Appellant.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and Michael J. Smolen, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

FLEMING, J.

Must a physician conducting an examination for the purpose of civil commitment inform the person examined of the privilege against incrimination? This is the principal question in the appeal of Ralph Theodore Lipscomb from his commitment to the Director of Corrections for narcotic treatment at the Rehabilitation Center in Corona.

On 27 November 1966, Lipscomb, who appeared to be under the influence of a narcotic and showed external evidence of...

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