State v. Beaver

¶1 — We must determine whether due process requires the trial court find current mental illness to revoke an insanity acquittee’s conditional release. Chapter 10.77 RCW, the statutory scheme that governs insanity acquittals, requires the trial court find that a conditionally released insanity acquittee violated the conditions of release or poses a threat to the public to revoke an insanity acquittee’s conditional release. Chapter 10.77 RCW does not require the trial court make a finding regarding the acquittee’s mental state at a conditional release revocation hearing. We hold that the…