PEOPLE v. BOWERS

No. F054686

169 Cal.App.4th 1442 (2009)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. EDITH ANN BOWERS, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fifth District

January 9, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peggy A. Headley, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney General, Brian Alvarez and Leanne LeMon, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

GOMES, J.

In December 2001, defendant Edith Ann Bowers was found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGI) of two counts of battery on correctional officers. (Pen. Code, § 4501.5.)1 The court committed Bowers to the State Department of Mental Health (DMH). In 2005, after waiver of a jury trial, Bowers's commitment was extended to August 16, 2007....

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