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PEOPLE v. LARA

No. S155481.

48 Cal.4th 216 (2010)

226 P.3d 322

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. DAVID ALAN LARA, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

March 8, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lauretta Marie Oravitz-Komlos, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Mary Jo Graves and Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Gerald A. Engler, Assistant Attorney General, Laurence K. Sullivan, Seth K. Schalit, Dorian Jung and Brent Wilner, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Dolores A. Carr, District Attorney (Santa Clara), Dana Overstreet and Paul Colin, Deputy District Attorneys, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

CORRIGAN, J.—

Defendant David Alan Lara was tried for false imprisonment of a child, found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGI), and committed to a state hospital. A petition to extend his commitment was filed so late that he did not have adequate time to prepare for trial before his term ended. There was no good cause for the late filing. His motion to dismiss the petition...

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