PEOPLE v. MAY

No. A116768.

65 Cal.Rptr.3d 873 (2007)

155 Cal.App.4th 350

The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. William Edward Preston MAY, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeal of California, First District, Division Three.

September 19, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rudy Kraft, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Appellant and Defendant.

Edmund G. Brown Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Assistant Attorney General, Seth K. Schalit and Jill M. Thayer, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent and Plaintiff.


McGUINESS, P.J.

William Edward Preston May filed this appeal from an order recommitting him to Atascadero State Hospital as a mentally disordered offender (MDO). (Pen.Code, § 2972, subd. (c).) May does not challenge the sufficiency of evidence supporting his recommitment but instead argues the trial court abused its discretion in refusing to decide whether he should be released for outpatient treatment. The question squarely presented in this appeal, and apparently...

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