Application for Release

Anders/Wende review was not required in an appeal from an order denying NGI’s petition to be released from the state hospital and placed in CONREP as part of the process for restoration of his sanity. In 2021, Sundberg, an NGI,…

Denial of NGI defendant's petition for conditional release reversed where trial court improperly denied his request to testify by telephone. In 1997, Endsley was committed to a state hospital after being found not guilty of the murder of his father…

The trial court did not err when it revoked defendant's outpatient status before she was placed in an outpatient program. In 2000, Parker was found not guilty by reason of insanity of several offenses arising out of an assault on…

Court erred in denying outpatient status because it found details of program lacking, but did not determine appellant was currently insane. Appellant was committed to a state hospital in 2000 after having been found not guilty by reason of insanity…

A person who has been found not guilty by reason of insanity who subsequently applies for release from state hospital commitment bears the burden of proving, by a preponderance of the evidence, that he is no longer a danger to…

The appellate court is not required to independently review the record pursuant to Anders/Wende procedures where the appeal is from the denial of outpatient status pursuant to a petition for restoration of competency under Penal Code section 1026.2. Dobson was…

The trial court abused its discretion in declining to place the defendant in a secured nursing facility under outpatient status. The defendant pled guilty to second degree murder in 1991, and the trial court found that he had not been…