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IN RE LOPEZ

Docket No. Crim. 13485.

2 Cal.3d 141 (1970)

465 P.2d 257

84 Cal. Rptr. 361

In re PETER JOSEPH LOPEZ on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

March 2, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Edward J. Horowitz, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Petitioner.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Doris H. Maier, Assistant Attorney General, and Arnold O. Overoye, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.

OPINION

MOSK, J.

Petitioner, Peter Joseph Lopez, is confined for treatment as a narcotics addict in the California Men's Colony at Los Padres pursuant to civil commitment proceedings under former section 6450 of the Penal Code, now Welfare and Institutions Code section 3050. We issued an order to show cause in response to his petition in propria persona for a writ of habeas corpus to consider the contention that his present civil...

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