PEOPLE v. ZAPISEK
To extend commitment of defendant found not guilty by reason of insanity beyond maximum prison confinement time, trial court was required to find that defendant had a serious difficulty controlling his potentially dangerous behavior. Trial court finding that defendant had a serious difficulty controlling potentially dangerous behavior was supported by substantial evidence, including expert testimony that he suffered from a schizo affective disorder, bipolar type, which, among other things, caused him to suffer delusions that he wholeheartedly believed, that his reality testing remained "extremely impaired," that he also was paranoid, that he denied at least some of his delusions and paranoia, had not completed the hospital's mandated relapse prevention plan and, on at least one occasion, had only pretended to take his prescribed medication, together with defendant's own testimony that he believed he had inherited great wealth and that the president of the United States was personally aware of his impending release.
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