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32. Id. at (1) & (2).
33. Id. at (b).
34. Id. at (c).
35. Id. at (d).
36. Id.
37. Id., § 46B.073(b).
38. Id. § 46B.080.
39. Any offense not listed in Tex. Code of Crim. Proc.
§ 17.032(a) (2010) except (a)(6).
40. Tex. Code of Crim. Proc. § 42.12 3g(a)(2) (2010).
41. Tex. Code of Crim. Proc. § 46B.073(d) (2010).
42. Id. at (c).
43. Id., § 46B.077.
44. Id., § 46B.111, for the appointment of disinterested experts;
and id., § 46B.086 (d), for testimony of a physician not involved
in the defendant’s proceedings for use in the determination
of court-ordered medications.
45. Id., § 46B.073.
46. Id., § 46B.071.
47. L. Aron, R. Honberg, K. Duckworth et al., Grading the
States 2009: A Report on America’s Health Care System for Adults
with Serious Mental Illness 143 (2009), available at http://www.
nami.org (follow “Grading the States” hyperlink, then follow “Full
Report” hyperlink).
48. E. Torrey, K. Entsminger, J. Geller et al., The Shortage of
Public Hospital Beds for Mentally Ill Persons 16 (2006) http://nami
.beardog.net/AdvHTML_Upload/TACShortageofBedsStudywithtables.pdf.
49. See supra note 47, at 18.
50. Lillian Ortiz, “Mental health cuts could be disastrous,”
Houston Chronicle, http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/7123337.html
(last visited Oct. 11, 2010).
51. Tex. Code of Crim. Proc. § 46B.072 (2010).
52. Id. at (d)(1).
53. Austin Travis County Integral Care, http://www.integralcare.org/nd=ccrp
(last visited Oct. 11, 2010).
54. Tex. Code of Crim. Proc. § 46B.108(a) (2010).
55. Id. at (b).
56. Id § 46B.110.
57. Id. at (b).
58. Id § 46B.111.
59. Id § 46B.108(b).
60. Id., § 46B.109.
61. Id., § 46B.112.
62. Id., § 46B.113 (a).
63. Id. at (b).
64. Id. at (c).
65. Id. at (e) and thereafter, incompetency is presumed at
the hearing unless refuted by a preponderance of the evidence.
66. Id. at (d) and thereafter, competency is presumed at the
hearing unless refuted by a preponderance of the evidence.
67. Id., § 46B.116.
68. Id., § 46B.117.
69. Id., § 46B.115 (a).
70. Tex. Health & Safety Code § 574.106 (a) (2010); and id.
at (a-1), is under court order to receive inpatient mental health
ser vices, and clear and convincing evidence, that the patient lacks
capacity to make own decision regarding medication and the
proposed medication is in the best interest of the patient; and the
patient presents a danger to self or others in the inpatient mental
health or correctional facility.
71. Id., § 46B.086.
72. Id. at (a)(4).
73. Id. at (e).
74. Id. at (d); see, generally, Brian D. Shannon, Prescribing a
Balance: The Texas Legislative Responses to Sell v. United States
St. Mary’s L.J. (2010), http://www.stmaryslawjournal.org/pdfs/
Shannon_II.pdf (discussing the evolution of Texas’ approach to
court-ordered medications).
75. Id., § 46B.0095, except if charged with a misdemeanor
and ordered to participate in an outpatient treatment program,
the maximum period is two years.
76. Id. at (b).
77. Id., § 46B.102, where charges remain pending; and id.,
§ 46B.151, where charges have been dismissed.
78. Id., § 46B.102(a).
79. Tex. Health & Safety Code § 574.034–574.035 (2010).
80. Id., § 574.034(a); and id., § 574.035 (a).
81. Id. § 574.034.
82. Id., § 574.035.
83. Id., § 574.034(b).
84. Id. at (g).
85. Id., § 574.035(3) & (4).
86. Id. at (h).
87. Id., § 574.151(b).
Jeanette Kinard is Director of the Travis
County Mental Health Public Defender Office
in Austin, Texas. Jeanette has a Bachelor’s
Degree from the University of Texas at
Austin and a Law Degree from the University
of Houston in Houston. A frequent speaker,
statewide, on the topic of the mentally ill in the criminal justice
system, Jeanette is a member of the State Bar of Texas, Austin
Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (President, 1994–95
and 2004–5), Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association
(Board of Directors, 1996–2000), National Criminal Defense
Lawyers Association, and the National Legal Aid and Defender
Association. She serves on the Mayor’s Mental Health Task
Force, the Texas Continuity of Care Task Force, and Travis
County MH Jail Diversion Committee and is a Board Member
for Capacity for Justice. Jeanette, a partner at Kinard & Kinard
in Austin for 17 years, is editor of Kinard’s DWI Manual.
She served six years on the District 9 Grievance Committee
(1992–98) and was formerly a prosecutor in Harris, Bell, and
Travis counties. Jeanette is a frequent contributor to Voice for
the Defense magazine.