Legal Opinion
State v. Fields
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided July 31, 1978PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Pashman, J.
In State v. Knot, 68 N. J. 236 (1975), this Court announced certain interim rules to govern the disposition of persons acquitted of criminal charges by reason of insanity pursuant to N. J. S. A. 2A:163-2 and 3. We authorized the automatic temporary commitment of an insanity-acquittee for up to sixty days for the purpose of a psychiatric evaluation of his current mental condition and propensity for future antisocial conduct. See 68 N. J. at 256. *289We further authorized the State to seek, within that period, tire indefinite imposition of…
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- In Re StephensonIllinois Supreme Court · 1977
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