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PEOPLE v. SUPERIOR COURT (ALMOND)

Docket No. A047581.

219 Cal.App.3d 607 (1990)

268 Cal. Rptr. 375

THE PEOPLE, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, Respondent; JAMES ALMOND, Real Party in Interest.

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

April 11, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Richard B. Iglehart, Chief Assistant Attorney General, John H. Sugiyama, Assistant Attorney General, Stan M. Helfman and Morris Beatus, Deputy Attorneys General, for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Charles H. James, Public Defender, and David C. Coleman III, Deputy Public Defender, for Real Party in Interest.

OPINION

HANING, J.

Real party in interest James Almond was found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGI) in 1982, committed to a state mental hospital, and placed on outpatient status in 1986. Respondent superior court is now being asked to decide whether real party should be released outright on the ground that his sanity has been restored. (Pen. Code, § 1026.2.)1 Respondent court proposed to conduct...

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