PEOPLE v. WOODS

Docket Nos. A055941, A056503.

12 Cal.App.4th 1139 (1993)

15 Cal. Rptr.2d 906

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. SHERI ANN WOODS, Defendant and Respondent. In re SHERI ANN WOODS on Habeas Corpus.

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

February 1, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, John H. Sugiyama, Assistant Attorney General, Mark S. Howell and Gerald A. Engler, Deputy Attorneys General, Thomas H. Gordinier, County Counsel, Vicki Sieber-Benson, Assistant County Counsel, and Catherine P. Bernstein, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Louisa Havstad, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Respondent.


OPINION

SMITH, J.

The People appeal from a superior court order dismissing a murder prosecution against defendant Sheri Ann Woods. The issue is whether either of two prior dismissals was due to excusable neglect, thus allowing the People a third filing under Penal Code section 1387.1.1 We reverse the order and deny as moot a petition for writ of habeas corpus in which Woods challenges her custody status...

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