J.R. Collins

The Ontario Review Board held an annual review hearing for the accused, who was found not criminally responsible for murder due to schizophrenia.

The accused had recently eloped from the hospital and was found with cannabis, setting back his progress.

The Board accepted the joint submission of the parties that the accused continues to pose a significant threat to community safety and ordered the continuation of his detention order at CAMH Forensic Services.

The Ontario Review Board held an annual review hearing for an accused found not criminally responsible for attempted abduction.

The accused suffers from treatment-resistant schizophrenia and resides in a supervised community farm placement.

Based on a joint submission and uncontroverted expert psychiatric evidence, the Board found the accused continues to pose a significant threat to public safety due to chronic psychosis and limited insight.

The Board ordered the continuation of the existing Detention Order at the hospital with privileges for supervised community living.

The Ontario Review Board held a mandatory annual review of the disposition for the accused, who was found not criminally responsible for first-degree murder in 2011.

The accused, diagnosed with schizophrenia, remains detained at a secure forensic unit.

The Board found that the accused continues to pose a significant threat to the safety of the public due to his serious mental illness, lack of rehabilitative progress, and history of elopement.

The Board ordered the maintenance of the current detention disposition, finding it to be the necessary, appropriate, and least onerous disposition.