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IN RE DUCKETT

Docket No. 17430.

76 Cal.App.3d 692 (1978)

143 Cal. Rptr. 100

In re OTIS DUCKETT, JR., on Habeas Corpus.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division One.

January 10, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Jonathan S. Chasan for Petitioner.

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Jack R. Winkler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Edward P. O'Brien, Assistant Attorney General, William D. Stein and Linda Ludlow, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.

OPINION

ELKINGTON, J.

Otis Duckett, Jr., was charged with several counts of assault with a deadly weapon. (Pen. Code, § 245.) Over a period of about 48 hours, responding to psychotic delusions, he appears to have shot three young college students. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity according to the procedures of Penal Code section 1026, and he was thereafter committed to a state hospital. After more than 90 days of...

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