Opinion No. (2004)

BILL LOCKYER Attorney General GREGORY L. GONOT Deputy Attorney General THE HONORABLE BRUCE S. ALPERT, COUNTY COUNSEL, COUNTY OF BUTTE, has requested an opinion of the Attorney General on the following question: Is the state or a county responsible for the payment of the costs of (1) a report required before a court may consider suspension of a defendant's sentence, where the defendant has been convicted of a lewd or lascivious act on a minor under 14, (2) an examination of a defendant's mental competency, (3) an examination of a defendant, who has been convicted of a felony, to determine whether an involuntary civil commitment should be made due to narcotics addiction, (4) an examination of a person, in the absence of a criminal proceeding, to determine whether a civil commitment should be made due to narcotics addiction, (5) an examination and testimony in connection with an involuntary civil commitment of a person believed to be imminently dangerous to others, (6) evaluations and counsel regarding a civil commitment due to an inmate being a sexually violent predator, and (7) an examination of a defendant where a plea of "not guilty by reason of insanity" has been entered?…