(a) If a defendant is found not guilty under AS 12.47.040(a)(2), the prosecuting attorney shall, within 24 hours, file a petition under AS 47.30.700 for a screening investigation to determine the need for treatment if the prosecuting attorney has good cause to believe that the defendant is suffering from a mental illness and as a result is gravely disabled or likely to cause serious harm to self or others.
(b) In this section, “mental illness” has the meaning given in AS 47.30.915.
Structure Alaska Statutes
Title 12. Code of Criminal Procedure
Chapter 47. Insanity and Competency to Stand Trial
Sec. 12.47.010. Insanity as affirmative defense.
Sec. 12.47.020. Mental disease or defect negating culpable mental state.
Sec. 12.47.030. Guilty but mentally ill.
Sec. 12.47.040. Form of verdict in certain cases involving insanity or mental disease or defect.
Sec. 12.47.050. Disposition of defendant found guilty but mentally ill.
Sec. 12.47.055. Treatment for other defendants not limited.
Sec. 12.47.060. Post conviction determination of mental illness.
Sec. 12.47.070. Psychiatric examination.
Sec. 12.47.080. Procedure upon verdict of not guilty.
Sec. 12.47.090. Procedure after raising defense of insanity.
Sec. 12.47.092. Procedure for conditional release.
Sec. 12.47.095. Notice to victims.
Sec. 12.47.100. Incompetency to proceed.
Sec. 12.47.110. Commitment on finding of incompetency.