State v. Casby

Judge MICHAEL E. KIRBY.

IsThese four writs have been consolidated because they present a single issue: Whether civil commitment procedures apply to criminal defendants who have been found incompetent to proceed for the foreseeable future.

STATEMENT OF THE CASE:

In No.2005-K-1181 the defendant Casby was charged in the Criminal District Court with two counts of aggravated crime against nature, pleaded not guilty and was later found incompetent to proceed. Two years later the court found that his competency would not be restored in the foreseeable future and ordered that the commitment be converted…