Whether competency determinations are reviewed deferentially. Go To Brief Time Limits for Competency Exam. State ex rel. For Hager, Gerhardt F. Getzin, SPD, Wausau.
Resolution turns on whether the court specifically ordered an inpatient exam.
No written order was entered, helping to create an unfortunate ambiguity. This did not, in and of itself, specify whether the exam would be inpatient or outpatient. And, under this provision, then the time limit for an inpatient exam is triggered by arrival at the facility. Hager wasn't transported to the facility, instead languishing for five months in jail. But given the lack of precision in the judge's order, the statutory 15-day time limit didn't begin to run because he wasn't sent to Winnebago and the statute therefore wasn't violated.