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CPL 330.20: Insanity Verdict, Commitment, & Orders

Stephan M. Carlson, MD, MBA, FAPA · Criminal Competency and Responsibility

A verdict of not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect ends the criminal case and opens a civil-commitment proceeding that can outlast the prison term the charge once carried. The classification hearing that follows turns on present dangerousness, not on what the defendant did — and a psychiatric opinion that argues the wrong question stalls there. What CPL 330.20 sets in motion A New York defendant found not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect under Penal Law §40.15 is neither released nor sentenced. The verdict triggers a separate statutory track under Criminal Procedure Law §330.20, which governs the acquittee from the verdict through commitment, supervised relea

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