James Cheston

The Ontario Review Board conducted an annual review for an accused found not criminally responsible for assaulting a peace officer and failing to comply with probation.

The accused sought to have community living privileges added to his detention order.

The hospital and the Attorney General opposed the request, citing a recent unprovoked assault on a co-patient and the accused's ongoing persecutory delusions.

The Board accepted the expert psychiatric evidence that adding community living privileges prematurely would harm the therapeutic relationship.

The Board concluded the accused remains a significant threat to public safety and ordered his continued detention at the secure forensic unit without community living privileges.