IN RE GONZALES

Docket No. Crim. 15176.

6 Cal.3d 346 (1971)

491 P.2d 809

99 Cal. Rptr. 17

In re JOSE L. GONZALES on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

December 20, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Albaum & King and Walter H. King for Petitioner.

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, and Jerold A. Prod, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


OPINION

BURKE, J.

This case presents the question of the extent to which the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (the "LPS act" or the "act"), commencing with section 5000 of the Welfare and Institutions Code,1 applies to court commitments of mentally ill persons made under preexisting law. Petitioner, who was committed to Atascadero State Hospital as a mentally ill person by the Los Angeles Superior Court in April...

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