Last week, Supreme Court Chief Justice David Gilbertson announced the formation of a task force to look at the impact a back log of mental competency evaluations is having on the state’s court system. Beadle County States Attorney Mike Moore says his office tries to work around the delays…
In fiscal year 2015, 147 mental competency evaluations were requested, however only 36 were done at the Human Services Center. Moore says the process to do the testing is not that extensive…
Moore says getting more exams done would likely involve counties getting more money from the state or the state spending more money to expand capability at the Human Services Center in Yankton…
Moore says he’s in favor of the proposed task force set up by the Chief Justice.