Marissa Roy and John McKinney were sent identical questions on plea notice, restitution interest and victim address disclosure.
California’s Penal Code 1001.36 was designed to help the genuinely mentally ill avoid unnecessary incarceration. But its legal architecture — a mandatory presumption the prosecution can almost never overcome, combined with a complete erasure of the arrest record on completion — creates a pathway a sophisticated defendant can exploit. Here is how it works, step…