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FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

In 2010, appellant was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon (§ 245, subd. (a)(1)) and was sentenced to state prison. After the BPH determined that appellant

1 All further statutory references are to the Penal Code. was an MDO subject to involuntary treatment as a condition of his parole, appellant filed a petition for hearing and waived his right to a jury trial. Dr. Phylissa Kwarnter, a clinical psychologist at Atascadero State Hospital (ASH), testified at the hearing. Dr. Kwartner interviewed appellant and spoke with his treatment team. The doctor also reviewed appellant's medical records, his prior MDO evaluations, and his probation report regarding the commitment offense. Based on this information, Dr. Kwartner opined that appellant met the criteria for MDO treatment. Appellant suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, which qualifies as a serious mental disorder under the MDO law. Appellant began requiring treatment in 1969, when he was 18 years old. He has been hospitalized in state facilities on 23 separate occasions. His symptoms include paranoid delusions, conspiracy theories, disorganized thoughts, rambling and tangential speech,…