Francis S. v. Rochester Psychiatric Center

OPINION OF THE COURT

Donald J. Mark, J.

On August 7, 1987, the petitioner entered a plea of not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect pursuant to CPL 220.15 to the crimes of attempted assault in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree. Following various criminal and civil commitments in state psychiatric facilities, as partly chronicled in the cases of Francis S. v Stone (221 F3d 100, 102-107) and Matter of Francis S. (87 NY2d 554, 559-561),1 the petitioner, in his latest proceeding on May 15, 2002, was adjudicated in County Court to be suffering…