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PEOPLE v. QUINN

No. B139439.

103 Cal.Rptr.2d 915 (2001)

86 Cal.App.4th 1290

The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Willie QUINN, Defendant and Appellant.

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

Review Denied June 13, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Bernstein, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Carol Wendelin Pollack, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Michael C. Keller, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

GILBERT, P.J.

A mentally retarded person who is a danger to himself or to others may be committed to the State Department of Developmental Services under Welfare and Institutions Code section 6500.1

Here we conclude such commitment is proper without proving that mental retardation was a cause of the dangerous condition.

Defendant Willie Quinn appeals an order of commitment to Atascadero State hospital. We conclude that...

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