PEOPLE v. PRETZER

Docket No. B057105.

9 Cal.App.4th 1078 (1992)

11 Cal. Rptr.2d 860

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. DAVID PRETZER, Defendant and Appellant.

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

September 17, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Christopher L. Haberman, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Carol Wendelin Pollack, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Keith H. Borjon and Leslie P. McElroy, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

GILBERT, J.

Defendant David Pretzer appeals an order certifying him as a mentally disordered offender pursuant to Penal Code section 29621 and continuing his involuntary confinement and treatment at a state mental hospital. We affirm but hold Pretzer has a constitutional right not to be called as a witness to testify concerning "force or violence...

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