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PEOPLE v. THOMAS

Docket No. Crim. 19476.

19 Cal.3d 630 (1977)

566 P.2d 228

139 Cal. Rptr. 594

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. L.C. THOMAS, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

July 15, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Wilbur F. Littlefield and Richard S. Buckley, Public Defenders, John J. Gibbons, Alan H. Simon, Michael Tautfest and Laurence M. Sarnoff, Deputy Public Defenders, for Defendant and Appellant.

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Jack R. Winkler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, S. Clark Moore, Assistant Attorney General, Jack T. Kerry and Abram Weisbrot, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

MOSK, J.

Two years ago we held that a person whom the state seeks to commit to a mental hospital as a "mentally disordered sex offender" (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 6300 et seq.) is entitled on several state and federal constitutional grounds to the safeguards of proof beyond a reasonable doubt (People v. Burnick (1975) 14 Cal.3d 306

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