CREW III, J.P.
Respondent has been in the custody and care of petitioner, the Commissioner of the Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, since his acquittal of a charge of criminal contempt in 1986. In 2004, petitioner sought a retention order with an order directing respondent's transfer from the secure facility in which he resided to a nonsecure facility on the ground that respondent did not then have a dangerous mental disorder (see
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