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Home » US Law » 2022 Missouri Revised Statutes » Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure » Chapter 552 - Criminal Proceedings Involving Mental Illness

Section 552.010 – Mental disease or defect defined.

Effective – 28 Aug 1969 552.010. Mental disease or defect defined. — The terms “mental disease or defect” include congenital and traumatic mental conditions as well as disease. They do not include an abnormality manifested only by repeated criminal or otherwise antisocial conduct, whether or not such abnormality may be included under mental illness, mental […]

Section 552.015 – Evidence of mental disease or defect, admissible, when.

Effective – 28 Aug 2011 552.015. Evidence of mental disease or defect, admissible, when. — 1. Evidence that the defendant did or did not suffer mental disease or defect shall not be admissible in a criminal prosecution except as provided in this section. 2. Evidence that the defendant did or did not suffer from a […]

Section 552.020 – Lack of mental capacity bar to trial or conviction — psychiatric examination, when, report of — plea of not guilty by reason of mental disease, supporting pretrial evaluation, conditions of release — commitment to hospital, when — statements of accused inadmissible, when — jury may be impaneled to determine mental fitness.

Effective – 28 Aug 2018, 2 histories 552.020. Lack of mental capacity bar to trial or conviction — psychiatric examination, when, report of — plea of not guilty by reason of mental disease, supporting pretrial evaluation, conditions of release — commitment to hospital, when — statements of accused inadmissible, when — jury may be impaneled […]

Section 552.030 – Mental disease or defect, not guilty plea based on, pretrial investigation — evidence — notice of defense — examination, reports confidential — statements not admissible, exception — presumption of competency — verdict contents — order of commitment to department.

Effective – 28 Aug 2011 552.030. Mental disease or defect, not guilty plea based on, pretrial investigation — evidence — notice of defense — examination, reports confidential — statements not admissible, exception — presumption of competency — verdict contents — order of commitment to department. — 1. A person is not responsible for criminal conduct […]

Section 552.040 – Definitions — acquittal based on mental disease or defect, commitment to state hospital required — immediate conditional release — conditional or unconditional release, when — prior commitment, authority to revoke — applications for release, notice, burden of persuasion, criteria — hearings required, when — denial, reapplication — escape, notice — additional criteria for release.

Effective – 28 Aug 2014, 2 histories 552.040. Definitions — acquittal based on mental disease or defect, commitment to state hospital required — immediate conditional release — conditional or unconditional release, when — prior commitment, authority to revoke — applications for release, notice, burden of persuasion, criteria — hearings required, when — denial, reapplication — […]

Section 552.043 – Hearings open to public.

Effective – 28 Aug 1994 552.043. Hearings open to public. — All hearings held pursuant to the provisions of section 552.040 shall be open to the public. ­­——– (L. 1994 S.B. 763)

Section 552.060 – Mental disease or defect upon sentence to death.

Effective – 28 Aug 1989 552.060. Mental disease or defect upon sentence to death. — 1. No person condemned to death shall be executed if as a result of mental disease or defect he lacks capacity to understand the nature and purpose of the punishment about to be imposed upon him or matters in extenuation, […]

Section 552.070 – Power of governor to grant reprieves, commutations and pardons.

Effective – 28 Aug 1963 552.070. Power of governor to grant reprieves, commutations and pardons. — In the exercise of his powers under Article IV, Section 7 of the Constitution of Missouri to grant reprieves, commutations and pardons after conviction, the governor may, in his discretion, appoint a board of inquiry whose duty it shall […]