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PEOPLE v. BENNETT

Docket No. 39139.

131 Cal.App.3d 488 (1982)

182 Cal. Rptr. 473

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JAMES ALAN BENNETT, Defendant and Appellant.

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

May 6, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Wilbur F. Littlefield, Public Defender, Laurence M. Sarnoff, Jill Lansing and Leighton A. Nugent, Deputy Public Defenders, for Defendant and Appellant.

George Deukmejian, Attorney General, Robert H. Philibosian, Chief Assistant Attorney General, S. Clark Moore, Assistant Attorney General, Edward T. Fogel, Jr., and Robert R. Anderson, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

DALSIMER, J.

The primary issue here presented is whether a person committed to a mental institution after being found not guilty of a felony by reason of insanity may be recommitted without a finding of amenability to treatment.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

On March 5, 1975, appellant, James Alan Bennett, after a court trial, was found to have committed an assault with a deadly weapon and to be not guilty thereof by...

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