Ray Jackson v. Charles Foti, Jr., Etc.

POLITZ, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal from the denial of a writ of habeas corpus, we examine the provisions of Louisiana law governing commitment of persons acquitted of a crime by reason of insanity. We conclude that the due process clause entitles insanity acquit-tees to a hearing before commitment and that the equal protection clause requires a state to afford insanity acquittees substantially the same protections, subject to certain qualifications, as are granted to persons committed under civil commitment statutes. Finding the procedures followed in the instant case to have been…