IN RE QAWI

No. S100099.

7 Cal.Rptr.3d 780 (2003)

81 P.3d 224

32 Cal.4th 1

In re Kanuri Surgury QAWI, on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California

January 5, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Renée E. Torres, under appointment by the Supreme Court, San Francisco, for Petitioner Kanuri Surgury Qawi.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Pamela Smith-Steward, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Charlton G. Holland III, Assistant Attorney General, Stephanie Wald, James M. Humes and Angela Botelho, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent the People.


MORENO, J.

The Mentally Disordered Offender Act (MDO Act), enacted in 1985, requires that offenders who have been convicted of violent crimes related to their mental disorders, and who continue to pose a danger to society, receive mental health treatment during and after the termination of their parole until their mental disorder can be kept in remission. (Pen.Code, § 2960 et seq.) Although the nature of an offender's past criminal conduct is one of the criteria...

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