| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: |
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| | Sec. 1. 17-A MRSA §1175, first ¶, as enacted by PL 1995, c. 680, §5, is | amended to read: |
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| | Upon complying with subsection 1, a victim of a crime of | murder or of a Class A, Class B or Class C crime for which the | defendant is committed to the Department of Corrections or to a | county jail, or a victim of a crime of gross sexual assault who | had not in fact attained 16 years of age at the time of the crime | for which the defendant is placed in institutional confinement | under Title 15, section 103 after having been found not | criminally responsible by reason of mental disease or defect and | is placed in institutional confinement under Title 15, section | 103, must receive notice of the defendant's unconditional release | and discharge from institutional confinement upon the expiration | of the sentence or upon discharge under Title 15, section 104-A | and must receive notice of any conditional release of the | defendant from institutional confinement, including probation, | parole, furlough, work release, intensive supervision, supervised | community confinement, home release monitoring or similar program | or release under Title 15, section 104-A. |
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| | This bill broadens victim notification of a defendant's | release, conditional or unconditional, from institutional | confinement under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 15, section | 104-A following involuntary commitment under Title 15, section | 103 as a consequence of the defendant having been found not | criminally responsible by reason of mental disease or defect. | Currently, victim notification of a defendant's release from such | confinement applies only to a gross sexual assault victim under | 16 years of age. This bill includes a murder victim as well as a | victim of any Class A, Class B or Class C crime. The bill is the | recommendation of the Department of the Attorney General. |
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