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Mental Health List of Orders
Order When to be used
Updated 01/30/2012
Order Appointing Expert for Competency Evaluation & Notice of Hearing Mental health / competency
Order Appointing Expert to Evaluate Defendant's Sanity at the Time of the Offense & Notice of Hearing Mental health / sanity
Order Appointing Expert for Competency Evaluation & Sanity at the Time of Offense & Notice of Hearing Mental health/ competency & sanity
Order Appointing Expert for Pre- Bond Screening Pre- bond ( first appearance)
Order Appointing Experts for Competency Evaluation & Notice of Hearing (Intellectual Disability) Intellectual Disability; *Agency for Persons with Disabilities must be appointed in addition to another expert
Order for Release, Transport, Assessment & Stabilization When defendants meet Baker Act criteria & are ordered to a receiving facility for stabilization; defendants with felony charges must first be accepted for admission by the facility's administrator.
Order Placing Defendant on Mental Health Pretrial Release Pre trial
Order Finding Defendant Incompetent & Commitment to Agency for Person with Disabilities Secure Placement Mental retardation/ autism: secure (i.e. MRDP- mentally reatarded defendant program)
Order Finding Defendant Incompetent & Commitment to Agency for Person with Disabilities Non- Secure Placement Mental retardation /autism: non - secure placement ( e.g. group home/ community)
Order Finding Defendant Competent to Proceed (mental illness) When the court finds a defendant competent to proceed
Order Finding Defendant Competent to Proceed (mental retardation/ autism) When the court finds a defendant competent to proceed
Order Adjudging Defendant Incompetent to Proceed & Commitment To the Department of Children & Families Mental health/ ITP & the court commits a defendant to DCF for admission into a state forensic facility
Order Adjudging Defendant Incompetent to Proceed and Placing Defendant on Conditional Release Mental health/ ITP & on a conditional release to community (felony)
Order Adjudging Defendant Incompetent to Proceed and Placing Defendant on Misdemeanor Conditional Release Mental health/ ITP/ conditional release (MM)
Order Continuing Incompetence to Proceed and Commitment to Department Of Children & Families Continued ITP & commitment to DCF
Order to Transport & Notice of Hearing Transport ( mental health & mental retardation)
Order Finding Defendant Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity and Commitment to The Department of Children & Families NGI after a trial & commitment to DCF for admission to a state forensic facility
Order Finding Defendant Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity and Placing Defendant on Conditional Release NGI after a trial & defendant is placed conditional release to community; a conditional release order and plan must be submitted to Court. Conditional release plan request must be sent to the Court mental Health Coordinator
Order of Revocation of Conditional Release & Commitment to the Department of Children & Families Violation of conditional release & defendant is committed to DCF
Order of Revocation/ Modification of Conditional Release Violation of conditional release & defendant's conditions of release are modified
Order Terminating Jurisdiction Nothing Specified
Order Dismissing Charges (Mental Illness) 5 year rule
Order Dismissing Charges (Mental Retardation) 2 year rule