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BACKGROUND

On June 22, 2012, the District Attorney filed a petition to extend defendant‟s outpatient commitment, pursuant to section 1606. The petition alleged that defendant had been committed to Atascadero State Hospital on August 1, 2007, after he was found not

1 All further statutory references are to the Penal Code unless stated otherwise. guilty, by reason of insanity, of a violation of section 245, subdivision (a)(1). (See §§ 1026, 1026.5.) The petition alleged that defendant had been released on outpatient status to South Bay CONREP on July 23, 2010 (see §§ 1600, 1604), and that his commitment was set to expire on July 23, 2012, but that he continued “to represent a substantial danger of physical harm to others without the care and supervision” of the CONREP program. A report from the CONREP program was filed with the petition. The report contained information about defendant‟s criminal offenses, mental health history, and treatment progress. According to the report, defendant‟s underlying offense was an assault with a knife committed on April 19, 2006; the victim was defendant‟s 72-year-old father. Defendant, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, had been…