Rosenfeld Wins Appeal for Mental Health Client; Courts Again to Reconsider Sentence Modification for Man Who Shot Big Sur Firefighter
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A California man sentenced to time in a lockdown mental health facility and twice denied modification to that sentence will again have his request for sentence modification reconsidered. Deeming that the Superior Court of Monterey County neglected a second time to align its decision with the terms of a plea agreement, California’s Sixth District Court of Appeal issued a peremptory writ of mandate commanding the court to vacate its recent order to deny Jacob Thomas Kirkendall’s motion to be released into a step-down mental health facility and once again to reconsider this request.