PEOPLE v. TOWNSEND

No. B216325.

182 Cal.App.4th 1151 (2010)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. REBIO TOWNSEND, Defendant and Appellant.

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

March 15, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald J. Miller, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, Keith H. Borjon and A. Scott Hayward, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

GILBERT, P. J.

Here we conclude possession of a "Molotov cocktail" is an offense involving an implied threat to use force or violence under the Mentally Disordered Offender (MDO) Act. (Pen. Code, § 2962.)1

Rebio Townsend appeals a judgment committing him to the State Department of Mental Health for treatment as an MDO following his conviction of possession of destructive devices, Molotov...

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