MATTER OF TORRES


166 A.D.2d 228 (1990)

In the Matter of Jose Torres, Respondent. The People of the State of New York et al., Appellants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

October 11, 1990


Defendant killed a man in 1978 and was charged with murder in the second degree. He was found not responsible for the crime by reason of mental disease or defect and committed to the custody of the Commissioner of Mental Health in 1980. Since that time he has been confined in various psychiatric facilities operated by the Office of Mental Health, except for a brief period when he escaped in 1984 and upon his recapture when he was...

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