Abraham

1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 3 4 ARTHUR ABRAHAM, Case No. 19-cv-02858-EMC

5 Petitioner,

ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR

6 v. WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS

7 CINDY BLACK, Docket No. 1 8 Respondent.

9 10 11 I. INTRODUCTION 12 Arthur Abraham filed this action for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 13 to challenge the state court’s denial of his petition for release from a state hospital to which he had 14 been committed years ago as an insanity acquittee. Respondent has filed an answer to the petition, 15 and Mr. Abraham has filed a traverse. For the reasons discussed below, the petition is denied. 16 II. BACKGROUND 17 A. California’s Not-Guilty-By-Reason-Of-Insanity Procedures 18 Although this case is limited to an insanity acquittee’s effort to get out of a state hospital, it 19 is helpful to understand the basics of California’s law for determining whether a person is not 20 guilty by reason of insanity (NGI)…