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Man accused in student’s death committed to hospital-60 years of care ordered after trial in 2009
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MIDDLETOWN, Conn. - A Massachusetts man who was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the 2009 slaying of a Wesleyan University student was ordered yesterday to be committed to a psychiatric hospital for 60 years.
Stephen Morgan had been charged with murder and other crimes in the May 2009 shooting death of 21-year-old Johanna Justin-Jinich, a college junior from Timnath, Colo. A three-judge panel found him not guilty in December after a trial in which a forensic psychologist testified that he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia.
Yesterday, the panel ordered that Morgan be committed to the maximum-security Whiting Forensic Institute in Middletown after Susan McKinley, a clinical social worker at Whiting, testified that a staff evaluation found that Morgan is psychotic, depressed, and a danger to others.
“We believe that he is still symptomatic,’’ she said. “He really doesn’t have a realistic idea of how his emotional or mental state led to his crime.’’
Stephen Morgan had been charged with murder and other crimes in the May 2009 shooting death of 21-year-old Johanna Justin-Jinich, a college junior from Timnath, Colo. A three-judge panel found him not guilty in December after a trial in which a forensic psychologist testified that he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia.
Yesterday, the panel ordered that Morgan be committed to the maximum-security Whiting Forensic Institute in Middletown after Susan McKinley, a clinical social worker at Whiting, testified that a staff evaluation found that Morgan is psychotic, depressed, and a danger to others.
“We believe that he is still symptomatic,’’ she said. “He really doesn’t have a realistic idea of how his emotional or mental state led to his crime.’’
More at http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/03/01/massachusetts-defendant-wesleyan-student-death-committed-psychiatric-hospital/1oaLAyviiUzgZ8deRgqKML/story.html