144 Wash. 2d 621 - State v. Reid’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “The court of the county which ordered the person's commitment, upon receipt of an application for conditional release with the secretary's recommendation for conditional release, shall within thirty days schedule a hearing. The court may schedule a hearing on applications recommended for disapproval by the secretary.... The issue to be determined at such hearing is whether or not the person may be released conditionally without substantial danger to other persons, or substantial likelihood of committing criminal acts jeopardizing public safety or security. ...”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Reid

2. “is actually something of a misnomer. The term suggests criminal punishment is warranted, but is nevertheless avoided. However if we truly accept the not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity defense, we must also accept the inexorable conclusion that the defendant was wholly incapable of forming the requisite intent to commit a crime. The insanity acquittee does not escape punishment because he has committed no act deserving of punishment. See Foucha v. Louisiana, 504 U.S. 71 , 76 n. 4, 112 S.Ct. 1780 , 118 L.Ed.2d 437 (1992) (”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Reid

3. “The defense of insanity has been established by a preponderance of the evidence. The evidence has established that the Defendant, Thomas Reid, suffered from an underlying mental disease or defect of major depression and/or some other undiagnosed disease or defect. That his voluntary use of hallucinogenic drugs in April, 1994 and June, 1994, triggered a psychotic disorder that caused him to be legally insane at the time of the commission of the offence....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Reid