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Filed 4/28/14 P. v. Reeves-Moniz CA3
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              IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
                                      THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT
                                                     (Sacramento)

THE PEOPLE,                                                                                  C069582

                   Plaintiff and Respondent,                                     (Super. Ct. No. 01F06977)

         v.

DIANE REEVES-MONIZ,

                   Defendant and Appellant.

         The maximum period of commitment for a defendant found not guilty by reason
of insanity (NGI) is the maximum sentence for the criminal offense unless extended
pursuant to the provisions of Penal Code section 1026.5, subdivision (a)(1).1 The
extension provisions require that a petition for recommitment be filed prior to the
termination of a commitment. (§ 1026.5, subd. (b)(10); see People v. Allen (2007) 42
Cal.4th 91, 94-95 (Allen).) A failure to file a petition prior to the termination of the

1 A further reference to a section is to the Penal Code unless otherwise designated or
apparent from the context.

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commitment invalidates an order of extended commitment. (Allen, supra, at pp. 104-
105.)
        Defendant Diane Reeves-Moniz pleaded no contest to charges of attempted
kidnapping of a two-year-old child and to misdemeanor battery of the child’s mother
when the mother interceded while defendant was unbuckling the child’s car seat. (§ 208,
subd. (b).) She was found NGI in 2003 and was initially committed to a state hospital for
three years six months, which did not include any penalty for misdemeanor battery, and
was six months short of the correct penalty for attempted simple kidnapping and two
years short of the correct penalty for attempted kidnapping of a child under the age of 14.
(§ 208, subds. (a) & (b).)2
        Six months later the court issued a judgment of commitment nunc pro tunc
(hereafter nunc pro tunc judgment) to the September 25, 2003, judgment of commitment
imposing a maximum commitment of six years, consisting of one-half the maximum term
(11 years) for the kidnapping of a child under the age of 14 (§ 208, subd. (b)) and six
months for misdemeanor battery. In calculating defendant’s maximum period of
commitment the court did not deduct conduct credits for the time defendant spent in
county jail prior to her commitment. Had the conduct credits been applied in calculating
defendant’s maximum term of commitment, her commitment would have ended in 2006.
A first petition for recommitment was filed in 2007 before the term of commitment
provided in the nunc pro tunc judgment had expired.
        Defendant argues her initial term of commitment ended before the first extension
petition was filed in 2007, because: (1) she did not plead guilty to attempted kidnapping
of a child, but only to simple attempted kidnapping; (2) she should not have received a

2 The correct period of commitment for an attempt is one-half of the penalty for the
offense. For attempted kidnapping of a child under the age of 14 years the penalty is five
and one-half years, one-half of the maximum sentence of 11 years. (§ 208, subd. (b)).

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consecutive sentence for battery; (3) she should have received conduct credits for the
time she spent in county jail, and (4) the nunc pro tunc judgment of commitment
increased her term of commitment ex parte, without notice and an opportunity to be heard
in violation of her due process rights, right to an attorney and in violation of the
proscription against double jeopardy.
       She argues she should have been released when the “maximum term of
commitment” (§ 1026.5, subd (a)(1)) terminated without the filing of a petition for
recommitment “[p]rior to [the] termination” (§1026.5, subd. (b)(10)). (In re Moye (1978)
22 Cal.3d 457, 467.) Instead, she agreed to an extension order in 2007. Subsequently her
commitment was extended in 2009 and again in 2011. Defendant argues that because she
should have been released prior to the first extension of her commitment, the first
extension and the subsequent extensions of commitment are invalid. We disagree.
       Defendant’s appeal is based on the theory that the nunc pro tunc judgment of
commitment was invalid when the first extension petition was filed in 2007, making the
first extension order void. However, unless the nunc pro tunc judgment was void ab
initio for want of fundamental jurisdiction of the subject matter or person, it was an
unchallenged, valid judgment at the time the extension petition was filed, and defendant’s
commitment extension was likewise valid. Defendant’s arguments relating to the
sentences for kidnapping and battery and the allowance of credits do not challenge the
trial court’s fundamental jurisdiction to enter the nunc pro tunc judgment of commitment,
because they do not assert that the trial court lacked jurisdiction over the subject matter or
over defendant’s person when it entered the nunc pro tunc judgment. Because these
arguments would not result in a void nunc pro tunc judgment if we were to accept them,
we need not consider them.
       The one argument that might challenge the trial court’s fundamental jurisdiction to
enter the nunc pro tunc judgment is the claim that it was entered ex parte, in violation of
defendant’s rights of due process and to an attorney, and in violation of the proscription

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against double jeopardy. However, it is impossible to tell on the record before us
whether the nunc pro tunc judgment was in fact entered ex parte.
       We conclude defendant has not met her burden of showing that the nunc pro tunc
judgment of commitment was void. We shall affirm the subsequent order of extended
commitment without prejudice to defendant’s filing of a petition for writ of habeas
corpus to determine whether the nunc pro tunc judgment of commitment was void for
lack of fundamental jurisdiction, and without prejudice to the filing of a petition for writ
of habeas corpus to determine whether her initial commitment period was correct.3
                   FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
       Following her arrest on August 31, 2001, for the attempted kidnapping of a two-
year-old child and the misdemeanor battery of the child’s mother, defendant was placed
in custody in the county jail. When defendant committed the offenses, she was under the
delusion that the child was the product of 1 of 17 eggs that had been stolen from her
during a Pap smear test and fertilized. Shortly after being placed in custody, her counsel
expressed doubt as to her competency to stand trial, and after evaluation she was found
incompetent and committed to Patton State Hospital, where she was admitted on
February 19, 2002.
       On April 16, 2002, defendant was certified mentally competent by the staff at
Patton State Hospital. She was subsequently returned to the custody of the county jail.

3 Defendant may file a writ of habeas corpus to determine whether the trial court
exceeded its jurisdiction by imposing a sentence that was unauthorized by the Penal
Code. (In re Huffman (1986) 42 Cal.3d 552, 555.) If successful, such a writ would not
void the nunc pro tunc judgment. Because defendant would be entitled to some relief for
an unauthorized sentence having been imposed, the lesser sentence, if there is one, would
apply to shorten her entire term of commitment, including extensions. The People would
have the opportunity to petition for an extension of her commitment before she is
released, since at no time would the current order of commitment have been void for lack
of fundamental jurisdiction of the person or subject matter.

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She quickly decompensated. She was recommitted to the trial competency program at
Patton State Hospital on December 20, 2002, and admitted to the hospital on April 8,
2003.
        On June 12, 2003, defendant was again certified mentally competent. She entered
a no contest plea to the charges, was diagnosed a chronic paranoid schizophrenic, and,
having been found NGI, was committed to Patton State Hospital on September 25, 2003.
        The trial court committed defendant to Patton State Hospital for the maximum
commitment term of three years and six months, with 601 days credit for time served. By
any calculation the maximum commitment term was incorrect. Assuming the offense to
which defendant pled no contest was attempted simple kidnapping, the correct sentence
for that offense would have been four years, not three years and six months. This is
because the maximum term for simple kidnapping is eight years, and for attempted
simple kidnapping, that term is halved. (§§ 208, subd. (a), 664, subd. (a).) If the offense
to which defendant pled no contest was attempted kidnapping of a child under the age of
14, the correct term was five years six months (one-half of the maximum term of 11
years). (§§ 208, subd. (b), 664, subd. (b).) The original judgment of commitment also
did not include a commitment period for the misdemeanor battery offense, which would
have added an additional six months. (§§ 1026.5, subd. (a)(3), 243, subd. (a).)
Defendant’s credits were also incorrectly calculated.
        Approximately six months after the first judgment of commitment, the trial court
filed the nunc pro tunc judgment, amending the maximum commitment term to six years
with credits of 601 days. The six-year period included five and one-half years for
attempted kidnapping of a child under the age of 14, and six months for misdemeanor
battery.
        There is no reporter’s transcript for March 22, 2004, the date the nunc pro tunc
judgment was entered. No reporter was present at the proceeding. The action is
memorialized by a handwritten entry on the minute order form for the case, which read:

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“c[our]t ord[ers] minutes of 9-25-03 mod[ified] to reflect max[imum] term 6 y[ea]rs [¶]
(C[oun]t 1, attempt[ed] kidnap[ping], vict[im] under 14 y[ea]rs -- 5 1/2 y[ea]rs [¶]
C[oun]t 2, misd[emeanor] battery -- 6 mo[nth]s = 6 y[ea]rs max[imum]).” Also in the
record is the nunc pro tunc judgment of commitment, entitled “Amended Commitment to
State Hospital.” It is in all relevant respects identical to the earlier “Commitment to State
Hospital” except the term of commitment is six years instead of three years and six
months. Both judgments of commitment state they were “Done In Open Court this 25th
day of September, 2003,” but the nunc pro tunc judgment displays a file stamp of March
22, 2004. It is therefore unclear on this record whether defendant had notice and an
opportunity to be heard prior to the entry of the nunc pro tunc judgment of commitment.
       Pursuant to the nunc pro tunc judgment, defendant’s commitment term ended on
February 1, 2008. Nevertheless, the petition to extend defendant’s commitment, filed on
April 23, 2007, stated that her commitment ended on September 1, 2007. This
discrepancy is likely due to an incorrect calculation of custody credits, as stated in a letter
to the trial court from Napa State Hospital, to which defendant was transferred in March
2004, which indicated defendant’s actual custody credits should be 2 years and 24 days
(754 days). However, there is no indication the trial court ever amended the commitment
term following the nunc pro tunc judgment of commitment.
       On May 31, 2007, defendant signed a waiver of trial and agreement to extend her
commitment for a period of two years from September 1, 2007. The order extending the
commitment to September 1, 2009, was filed the next day. One more petition for
extension of the commitment was filed by the People and agreed to by defendant in 2009.
       The People filed the petition for extended commitment at issue here in May 2011.
Defendant did not agree to the extension, and the matter was tried to the court on October
4, 2011. At trial, defendant did not raise any issue about the validity of the nunc pro tunc
judgment of commitment, or the subsequent extension orders, nor did she assert that the

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court had no jurisdiction to enter the current extension order. Instead, she asserted that
she did not pose a risk of substantial danger.
       She acknowledged that she committed the offenses while suffering a delusion she
later realized was untrue. She stated she would never try to kidnap a child again. She
also admitted she had received a revelation from Jesus Christ that her daughter had been
raped. She did not believe the revelation to be a hallucination or delusion. She also
believed at the time of trial that her daughter was one of the five virgins that make up the
bride of Christ. However, she denied telling anyone at the hospital that Jesus had been
captured and was being held captive in Orange County. She thought the
misunderstanding about Jesus being in Orange County may have been because much of
the hospital staff was foreign, and likely had misunderstood what she was saying. She
said that from now on if she had unusual thoughts or notions she would take it to her
higher power (i.e., the father and son, Jehovah and Jesus Christ) and the authorities.
       The trial court found defendant to be a person described in Penal Code section
1026.5, subdivision (b)(1), and on October 4, 2011, ordered her commitment extended
for another two years.
       Defendant’s timely notice of appeal states that it is from the judgment entered on
October 4, 2011.
                                       DISCUSSION
       Defendant’s appeal is based upon the Supreme Court’s decision in Allen, supra, 42
Cal.4th 91, which held that the provision of the Mentally Disordered Offenders Act
(§ 2960 et seq.) stating that “ ‘[p]rior to the termination of a commitment under this
section, a petition for recommitment may be filed’ ” is a mandatory time limit, and that
failure to file the petition for recommitment prior to the expiration of the prior

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commitment would invalidate the court’s recommitment order. (Allen, supra, at pp. 94,
104.) Defendant relies on the analogous provision in the NGI statutes.4
       Defendant acknowledges that she cannot now directly appeal the 2007
recommitment order. Her argument is that because her initial commitment term expired
before the 2007 recommitment petition was filed, the court had no jurisdiction to
recommit her in 2007, and it never got jurisdiction back. Her argument that the initial
commitment term expired before the 2007 recommitment petition was filed depends upon
our determining that the 2004 nunc pro tunc judgment of commitment was wrong. Her
appeal is thus a collateral attack against the 2004 nunc pro tunc judgment of commitment,
although she does not acknowledge this fact.
       A judgment is valid until it is set aside, unless the court lacked fundamental
jurisdiction to act. (People v. Medina (2009) 171 Cal.App.4th 805, 815; People v.
Williams (1999) 77 Cal.App.4th 436, 447.) Lack of jurisdiction in a fundamental sense
means “ ‘ “an entire absence of power to hear or determine the case, an absence of
authority over the subject matter or the parties.” ’ ” (People v. Medina, supra, 171
Cal.App.4th at p. 815.) A lack of fundamental jurisdiction is to be distinguished from a
case where the court has jurisdiction over the parties and the subject matter, but has no
power to act except in a particular manner. (Id. at pp. 815-816.) This is often referred to
as an act in excess of jurisdiction. (Ibid.)

4 Section 1026 et seq. Section 1026.5, subdivision (b)(1), applicable to persons
sentenced for a felony committed after July 1, 1977, provides, “A person may be
committed beyond the term prescribed by subdivision (a) only under the procedure set
forth in this subdivision and only if the person has been committed under Section 1026
for a felony and by reason of a mental disease, defect, or disorder represents a substantial
danger of physical harm to others.” The provisions of subdivision (b)(10) provide, “Prior
to termination of a commitment under this subdivision, a petition for recommitment may
be filed to determine whether the patient remains a person described in paragraph (1).”

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       A judgment rendered without fundamental jurisdiction is void, while a judgment
rendered in excess of jurisdiction is merely voidable. (People v. Gerold (2009) 174
Cal.App.4th 781, 787.) Because we determine that the issues raised by defendant would,
if correct, result in a nunc pro tunc judgment that is merely voidable, it was effective at
the time of the first extension petition, and is not a basis for holding either the first
extension or any subsequent extension void. “[A]n individual is subject to all the
disabilities of a judgment, commitment or sentence which, though voidable, has not been
judicially voided . . . .” (People v. Dubose (1971) 17 Cal.App.3d 43, 49.) In Dubose,
drugs were discovered in the defendant’s home when the police arrested him for violation
of parole. (Id. at p. 46.) It was subsequently determined that the prior conviction for
which the defendant had been paroled was invalid. (Ibid.) The defendant successfully
moved to suppress the evidence against him on the ground he was not a parole violator at
the time of the arrest, and that his arrest was therefore invalid. (Id. at pp. 46-47.) The
Court of Appeal reversed, holding that the subsequent judicial action altering the
defendant’s status as a parolee did not operate retroactively. (Id. at p. 48.) Until the prior
conviction was judicially determined to be invalid, the defendant was a parolee and
subject to arrest for a parole violation. (Id. at pp. 49-50.)
       This case is analogous. Unless the trial court had no fundamental jurisdiction to
act, the nunc pro tunc judgment was merely voidable, and was a valid order for purposes
of determining when to file the initial petition for extension. Consequently, unless the
nunc pro tunc judgment was void ab initio because the court lacked fundamental
jurisdiction, the 2007 recommitment petition was timely filed, it having been filed within
the time outlined in the uncontested 2004 nunc pro tunc judgment.
       Defendant raises several arguments against the validity of the 2004 nunc pro tunc
judgment. Only one of these has the possibility of rendering the 2004 nunc pro tunc
judgment void for lack of jurisdiction over the parties or the subject matter.

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       Defendant claims that because of several errors regarding the calculation of her
maximum commitment period in the nunc pro tunc judgment, her commitment ended
before the 2007 petition was filed to recommit her. She argues the nunc pro tunc
judgment imposed the wrong sentence for kidnapping, should not have imposed a
consecutive term for the misdemeanor battery, and incorrectly calculated her conduct
credits. None of these arguments impacts the trial court’s fundamental jurisdiction over
the parties and the subject matter. Therefore, none of these can be a basis for concluding
the nunc pro tunc judgment was void.
       She argues that the nunc pro tunc judgment was entered ex parte in violation of
her constitutional right to counsel, right to notice, and in violation of the federal double
jeopardy clause, and in violation of state prohibitions against ex parte deprivations of
liberty. Only this argument, if correct, could have an impact on the fundamental
jurisdiction of the court to enter the nunc pro tunc judgment. We are, however, unable to
determine the merits of this argument on appeal from the subsequent commitment
extension order because the record is inconclusive on the question of the ex parte nature
of the nunc pro tunc judgment.
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                      Challenges to the Maximum Commitment Term
       Defendant’s first attack on the 2004 nunc pro tunc judgment is that the trial court
incorrectly sentenced her for attempted kidnapping of a child, which carries a maximum
sentence of five and one-half years, when her no contest plea was to attempted
kidnapping, which carries a maximum sentence of only four years. She argues she
pleaded guilty to a violation of section 207, subdivision (a) only, and that the maximum
term for which she could have been committed was half the upper term set forth in
section 208, subdivision (a), or four years. She argues the nunc pro tunc judgment

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increasing her maximum commitment was void because she did not plead guilty to
section 208, subdivision (b).5
        We need not reach the merits of this argument, because assuming the nunc pro
tunc judgment incorrectly imposed a commitment term based on attempted kidnapping of
a child rather than simple attempted kidnapping, such an error does not result in a lack of
jurisdiction in the fundamental sense that the court lacked jurisdiction over the person or
subject matter.6
        A court lacks jurisdiction to impose a sentence that is unauthorized by law, and
such a sentence is void. (Wilson v. Superior Court (1980) 108 Cal.App.3d 816, 818; In
re Robinson (1956) 142 Cal.App.2d 484, 486.) However, jurisdiction in this context
means the court acted in excess of jurisdiction, rather than without fundamental
jurisdiction. (In re Sandel (1966) 64 Cal.2d 412, 417; People v. Getty (1975) 50
Cal.App.3d 101, 107, fn. 3; Smith v. Superior Court (1981) 115 Cal.App.3d 285, 293, fn.
4.) Thus, assuming, without deciding, that the nunc pro tunc judgment was for a

5   The People’s request for judicial notice of legislative history materials is granted.
6  If we were to consider defendant’s argument that the nunc pro tunc judgment
incorrectly sentenced her for kidnapping a child under the age of 14, rather than simple
kidnapping, we would reject it. Section 207 defines the offense of kidnapping, and that is
the crime to which defendant entered a no contest plea. Section 207 does not contain a
penalty provision. Section 208 describes the penalty for both simple kidnapping and
kidnapping of a child under the age of 14. Defendant pleaded no contest to count one of
the information, which charged her with “a violation of Section 664/207[, subdivision]
(a) of the Penal Code of the State of California, in that said defendant did unlawfully,
forcibly and by instilling fear, attempt to steal . . . COLLIN DOE, age 2 years . . . .” A no
contest plea “ ‘admits every element of the offense charged . . . , all allegations and
factors comprising the charge contained in the pleading . . . .’ ” (People v. Palacios
(1997) 56 Cal.App.4th 252, 257.) The inclusion of the victim’s age in the information
was not an idle act, but exposed defendant to a longer sentence. Defendant admitted the
allegation as part of the plea. She cannot escape the increased sentence when she pleaded
no contest to the facts necessary for the increased sentence.

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commitment term not authorized by law, it was not for this reason a judgment that was
void for lack of fundamental jurisdiction. Even if the commitment term in the nunc pro
tunc judgment was unauthorized by law, it was valid when the first recommitment order
was entered, and did not cause the first recommitment order to be void.
       The same analysis applies to defendant’s claims that she should not have received
a consecutive sentence for misdemeanor battery, and that she should have been awarded
conduct credits for the time she spent in county jail. Where a defendant is incorrectly
deprived of conduct credits or is sentenced to a term that is longer than is permitted by
law, it is an act in excess of jurisdiction, and may be corrected by writ of habeas corpus.
(In re Harris (1993) 5 Cal.4th 813, 839.) Neither of these mistakes, if they were
mistakes, resulted in the absence of the trial court’s fundamental jurisdiction to enter the
nunc pro tunc judgment. For this reason, we do not reach the merits of these arguments.
       When the trial court entered its 2007 recommitment order, the nunc pro tunc
judgment was unchallenged, and both parties and the trial court proceeded as though the
nunc pro tunc judgment was valid. In fact, defendant signed a written agreement to the
extension of her commitment for two years. The nunc pro tunc judgment remains
unchallenged to this day. Defendant argues the court has no jurisdiction to consider the
prosecution’s claim that the initial 2003 judgment of commitment was unlawful ab initio,
because the People did not appeal the order, yet that is exactly what she asks us to do
with respect to the 2004 nunc pro tunc judgment of commitment.
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            Challenges to the Ex Parte Nature of the Nunc Pro Tunc Judgment
       Defendant argues the nunc pro tunc judgment was entered ex parte, without the
appearance or appointment of counsel, and that this violated her federal Sixth and
Fourteenth Amendment rights to counsel, her right to due process, and constituted a
double jeopardy violation.

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       As stated, there is no reporter’s transcript of the proceeding associated with the
nunc pro tunc judgment. The only record of the judgment is: (1) a handwritten entry in
the minute order of the court stating that the court ordered the minutes of the September
25, 2003, hearing modified to reflect a maximum term of six years, consisting of five and
one-half years for the attempted kidnapping of a person under the age of 14, and six
months for the misdemeanor battery; and (2) the amended commitment to state hospital,
which is virtually identical to the 2003 judgment of commitment, except the term of
commitment is increased to six years with credits of 601 days. No reporter was present at
the proceeding.
       The minute order is a printed form with handwritten entries for the date, judge,
department, custody status, court reporter, and description of the proceedings. The
handwritten entry for the nunc pro tunc judgment shows a date of “3-22-04[,]” “Ure” for
the judge, “24” in the department column, a horizontal line in both the custody status and
court reporter column, and the proceedings are described as “c[our]t ord[ers] minutes of
9-25-03 mod[ified] to reflect max[imum] term 6 y[ea]rs [¶] (C[oun]t 1, attempt[ed]
kidnap[ping], vict[im] under 14 y[ea]rs -- 5 1/2 y[ea]rs [¶] C[oun]t 2, misd[emeanor]
battery -- 6 mo[nth]s = 6 y[ea]rs max[imum]).”
       It is impossible to tell on this record whether defendant had notice and an
opportunity to be heard before the court’s modification of her sentence. Rather than
affirmative evidence that defendant did not have notice and an opportunity to be heard,
there is an absence of evidence. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, we must
presume that the trial court properly followed established law. (Ross v. Superior Court
(1977) 19 Cal.3d 899, 913.) “For purposes of collateral attack, all presumptions favor the
truth, accuracy, and fairness of the conviction and sentence; defendant thus must
undertake the burden of overturning them. Society’s interest in the finality of criminal
proceedings so demands, and due process is not thereby offended.” (People v.

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Gonzalez (1990) 51 Cal.3d 1179, 1260, superseded by statute on another ground as stated
in In re Steele (2004) 32 Cal.4th 682, 691.)
       Without making a determination as to whether defendant had a right to be notified
of the increase in her term of commitment and an opportunity to object, we hold that any
such argument at this late date results in a collateral attack on the nunc pro tunc
judgment. “[W]hen reference to matters outside the record is necessary to establish that a
defendant has been denied a fundamental constitutional right resort to habeas corpus is
not only appropriate, but required.” (In re Bower (1985) 38 Cal.3d 865, 872.)
Accordingly, defendant must raise her collateral attack on the presumptively valid nunc
pro tunc judgment of commitment in a petition for habeas corpus, which is not confined
to the record on appeal. (§ 1487; People v. Waidla (2000) 22 Cal.4th 690, 703, fn. 1; In
re Crew (2011) 52 Cal.4th 126, 149.) It is not properly raised in this appeal from a
subsequent commitment extension.
                                       DISPOSITION
       The judgment (order) is affirmed.

                                               BLEASE                   , Acting P. J.

I concur:

            BUTZ                    , J.

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Nicholson, J., Concurring

       I concur in the result, which is an affirmance of the trial court’s order of
commitment. However, I respectfully disagree with the dicta concerning other relief
defendant may or may not be able to seek. In my opinion, declaring that our affirmance
is “without prejudice to defendant’s filing of a petition for writ of habeas corpus to
determine whether the nunc pro tunc judgment of commitment was void for lack of
fundamental jurisdiction, and without prejudice to the filing of a petition for writ of
habeas corpus to determine whether her initial commitment period was correct” (maj.
opn. at p. 4) has no legal effect. Simply declaring that defendant may seek habeas corpus
relief does not make if available. Defendant is no longer serving the initial term of
commitment and never challenged it while she was serving it.

                                                         NICHOLSON              , J.

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