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Delayed Washington Competency Evaluations and Treatment Violate Due Process
“The state has consistently and over a long period of time violated the constitutional rights of the mentally ill – this must stop,” declared a Washington federal district court. “The in-jail wait time” before transferring incompetent criminal defendants to state hospitals “is far beyond any constitutional boundary.”
Washington law requires ...
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