Legal Opinion
Matter of Oswald N.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided December 5, 1995PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Chief Judge Kaye.
This case presents a straightforward question of statutory interpretation: do the provisions of CPL 330.20 authorize an order extending the conditions placed on an insanity acquit-tee’s release from a psychiatric facility for a period greater than 10 years? We conclude that CPL 330.20 authorizes such an extension, and therefore reinstate the three-year extension ordered by the trial court.
In 1966, while on a weekend pass from Creedmoor Psychiatric Center, a secure psychiatric facility in Queens Village, de fendant Oswald N. — a paranoid schizophrenic —…
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