IN RE DAVIS

Docket Nos. Crim. 16512, 16513, 16530.

8 Cal.3d 798 (1973)

505 P.2d 1018

106 Cal. Rptr. 178

In re EUGENE TYRONE DAVIS on Habeas Corpus. In re HOWARD H. COWAN, JR., on Habeas Corpus. In re FRANK ROBERT PALMA on Habeas Corpus. (Consolidated Cases.)

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

February 7, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Richard S. Buckley, Public Defender (Los Angeles), John J. Gibbons, Richard C. Burton, David H. Guthman and Laurance S. Smith, Deputy Public Defenders, and Robert G. Eckhoff, Public Defender (Santa Barbara), for Petitioners.

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Edward A. Hinz, Jr., Chief Assistant Attorney General, Doris H. Maier, Assistant Attorney General, Edward T. Fogel, Jr., and Alan G. Novodor, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondents.


OPINION

BURKE, J.

In these consolidated cases we are called upon to review the constitutionality of the procedures (Pen. Code, § 1367 et seq.) for the commitment to, and release from, state hospital of defendants in criminal cases who have been found to lack sufficient mental competence to stand trial.1 Although we have concluded that petitioners' initial commitments were proper, we acknowledge that...

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