State v. Jacob

OAKS, Justice:

This case concerns the continued confinement of a criminal defendant found not guilty by reason of insanity. Defendant appeals the court’s refusal to release him *867after the first annual recovery hearing prescribed by statute. U.C.A., 1953, § 77-14-5.

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Defendant is 27 years of age. For ten years, he has suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. Because of this condition, he was discharged from the Air Force in 1971 and treated at various public and private institutions on numerous occasions since that time. In 1975, obsessed with the idea of evil around him, he made ineffectual…