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incompetency commitment — constitutional limit

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United States Supreme Court

a person charged by a State with a criminal offense who is committed solely on account of his incapacity to proceed to trial cannot be held more than the reasonable period of time necessary to determine whether there is a substantial probability that he will attain that capacity in the foreseeable future

Defined by the Supreme Court in - Jackson v. Indiana, 406 U.S. 715 (1972).