State v. Wooster

¶1 Ronald Wooster (Wooster) appeals from the Second Judicial District Court’s finding that he suffers from a mental disease or defect and its order denying his petition for release from the Montana State Hospital. We affirm the finding and order of the District Court.

¶2 In 1978, Wooster confessed to the murders of his two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Stacy and his six-year-old daughter Kelly. He was acquitted of the deliberate homicide charges stemming from those deaths when the District Court concluded that Wooster suffered from a mental disease or defect which rendered him incapable of…