Forensic psychiatry & mental health law

Psychiatry & Law Radar

Fri 11 SepCASE

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STATE V. HUNTER

— STAFF
An order of commitment under K.S.A. 22-3430 cannot simultaneously be imposed with an underlying Kansas Sentencing Guidelines Act prison sentence, because commitment is a process done in lieu of sentencing.

Kan. Sup. Ct. · vacated

Whether a court may impose a guidelines prison sentence and simultaneously order commitment to a state security hospital for treatment.

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10971949/state-v-hunter/