Can a defendant appeal from an order asserted to be nonappealable by the Attorney General be considered a petition for writ of habeas corpus or petition for the writ of mandate?

Thus, were we to conclude the order was not appealable, we could nevertheless consider defendant's appeal to be a petition for writ of habeas corpus or petition for writ of mandate and address its merits in the interest of judicial economy and due to uncertainty in the law. (See People v. Segura (2008) 44 Cal.4th 921, 928, fn. 4 [treating appeal from an order asserted to be nonappealable by the Attorney General as a petition for writ of habeas corpus]; Drum v. Superior Court (2006) 139 Cal.App.4th 845, 853 [treating untimely appeal as petition for writ of mandate due to uncertainty in the law respecting appealability of the orders in question].) In the instant case, we agree with the

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