At IU med Center Wishard Hospital in Indianapolis in the 80’s we had a judge on the Psych ward each day. People were “arrested” by the police on a DOC? “charge” so they could be remanded to the hospital for disposition after being held for psych evaluation (instead of being thrown in jail). It worked reasonably well. However, apparently a police officer had his ex-wife arrested on that charge so as to harass her, leading to it eventually being thrown out...and so was the court closed. It spared many mentally disturbed individuals (including demented old grandmas and grandpas) from having to be thrown in with criminals.
Hal, I remember those days well. I appeared before that judge on many a case of DOC? Didn’t “Trapper” John Stanleyused to sit in that court sometimes? They still do much the same thing now, it’s just directed by the criminal courts. With the amount and severity of the credible, specific first hand reports of specific threats in this case, law enforcement and the criminal courts should certainly have been all over this from the very start. And they still would in Marion County Indiana. Cop kids go to to school too.