State v. Lanzy Western Reserve Psychiatric Hospital

The issue before us concerns the scope of a trial court’s authority under R.C. 2945.40(F). Specifically, we are asked to decide whether a trial court, upon concluding that an insanity acquittee should be transferred to a less restrictive setting, has the authority to order that *156prior court approval be secured before the transferee may leave the facility’s premises. We find, infra, that a trial court does have the authority to place conditions on a transferee’s confinement.

The trial court, in its journal entry, determined that Lanzy should be transferred to WRPH. The trial court ordered that:

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