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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 504 RESPONSIBILITY
504.110 Alternative handling of defendant depending on whether he is competent or incompetent to stand trial.
Download pdfdefendant to a treatment facility or a forensic psychiatric facility and order him to
submit to treatment for sixty (60) days or until the psychologist or psychiatrist
treating him finds him competent, whichever occurs first, except that if the
defendant is charged with a felony, he shall be committed to a forensic psychiatric
facility unless the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the
secretary's designee determines that the defendant shall be treated in another
Cabinet for Health and Family Services facility. Within ten (10) days of that time,
the court shall hold another hearing to determine whether or not the defendant is
competent to stand trial. (2) If the court finds the defendant incompetent to stand trial but there is no substantial probability he will attain competency in the foreseeable future, it shall conduct an
involuntary hospitalization proceeding under KRS Chapter 202A or 202B. (3) If the court finds the defendant competent to stand trial, the court shall continue the proceedings against the defendant. Effective: June 20, 2005
History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 655, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 426, sec. 607, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1988 Ky. Acts
ch. 139, sec. 17, effective July 15, 1988. -- Created 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 113, sec. 6,
effective July 15, 1982.
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