Judge rejects Texas's request to pause competency wait-time order
U.S. District Judge David Ezra refused to pause his order requiring Texas to bring competency-restoration admission waits down to 21 days, after finding Bexar County defendants had been averaging 196 to 229 days in jail for a hospital bed — longer, in some cases, than the maximum sentence for the underlying misdemeanor charge.
The ruling kept the four-year statewide compliance clock running while the state's separate appeal of the underlying order continued, leaving Texas facing the same near-term pressure that Washington and Oregon had each experienced in their own long-running cases.
Source: Bexar County defendants wait months in jail for competency treatment; judge says Texas is violating their rights — Texas Public Radio, by Diego Medel | San Antonio Report
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