Bowers
People v. Bowers
Opinion
Opinion
Gomes, J.
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.) 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. We affirmed the order extending Bowers’s commitment in People v. Bowers (2006) 145 Cal.App.4th 870 [ 52 Cal.Rptr.3d 74 ] (Bowers).
On May 8, 2007, Bowers was conditionally released to the Central California Conditional Release Program (CONREP) for outpatient treatment and supervision. In October 2007, CONREP requested Bowers’s outpatient status be revoked because she violated the terms and conditions of her release. The court remanded Bowers into the custody of the Madera County Department of Corrections pending a hearing on CONREP’s request.
A petition for extended commitment under section 1026.5, subdivision (b) was filed on December 4 alleging that Bowers continued to possess a mental disease, defect or disorder, and by reason of such mental disease, defect, or disorder, represented a substantial danger of physical harm to others. The…