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Wash. Rev. Code § 71.06.060 (2026)

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After the superintendent's report has been filed, the court shall determine whether or not the defendant is a sexual psychopath. If said defendant is found to be a sexual psychopath, the court shall commit him or her to the secretary of social and health services for designation of the facility for detention, care, and treatment of the sexual psychopath. If the defendant is found not to be a sexual psychopath, the court shall order the sentence to be executed, or may discharge the defendant as the case may merit.
[ 2012 c 117 s 433; 1979 c 141 s 129; 1967 c 104 s 2; 1959 c 25 s 71.06.060. Prior: 1951 c 223 s 7.]
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 17 cases, 1975–1992 · leading case: State v. Huntzinger, 594 P.2d 917 (Wash. 1979).
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State v. Huntzinger, 594 P.2d 917 (Wash. 1979). · cites it 5× “The Court of Appeals remanded the cause ordering the trial court to make a finding of fact on the issue of sexual psychopathy as required by RCW 71.06.060. The State appealed. We affirm the Court of Appeals as modified.”
State v. Bunich, 626 P.2d 47 (Wash. Ct. App. 1981). · cites it 9× “We must decide (1) whether Bunich's release was proper or whether he should have been committed for detention, care, and treatment under RCW 71.06.060 and (2) whether Bunich unlawfully was placed twice in jeopardy for the *715 same offense.”
In Re the Pers. Restraint of Knapp, 687 P.2d 1145 (Wash. 1984). “See RCW 71.06.060. One month later petitioner was returned to the county jail because he was found not amenable to treatment and not safe to be at large.”
State v. McCarter, 588 P.2d 745 (Wash. 1978). “060 shall be retained by the superintendent of the institution involved until in the superintendent's opinion he is safe to be at large, or until he has received the maximum benefit of treatment, or is not amenable to treatment, but the superintendent is unable to render an *252…”
State v. Edwards, 606 P.2d 1224 (Wash. 1980). “) RCW 71.06.060. See also RCW 71.06.091 (dispositional alternatives after treatment include returning "to serve the original sentence imposed upon him.”
Plotkin v. State, 826 P.2d 221 (Wash. Ct. App. 1992). “A sexual psychopath, committed pursuant to RCW 71.06.060 shall be retained by the superintendent of the institution involved until in the superintendent's opinion he is safe to be at large, or until he has received the maximum benefit of treatment, or is not amenable to…”
State v. Anderson, 655 P.2d 1196 (Wash. Ct. App. 1982). “He was committed to Western State Hospital as a sexual psychopath, pursuant to RCW 71.06.060. An order deferring imposition of sentence was entered on condition that he successfully complete the sexual psychopathy program.”
State v. Bergen, 538 P.2d 533 (Wash. Ct. App. 1975). “Finally, after a commitment of 90 days for observation and a determination that Bergen was not a sexual psychopath, the trial court revoked the prior suspension of sentence and properly ordered execution of the sentence to imprisonment pursuant to RCW 71.06.060. Accord, State ex…”
State v. Carlow, 723 P.2d 522 (Wash. Ct. App. 1986). “*827 The record shows the State's cross appeal is not moot, nor is the stipulation to the dismissal necessarily inconsistent with the State's position in appealing the order.”
State v. McCarter, 562 P.2d 995 (Wash. Ct. App. 1977). · cites it 2× “The act provides: A sexual psychopath committed pursuant to RCW 71.06.060 shall be retained by the superintendent of the institution involved until in the superintendent's opinion he is safe to be at large, or until he has received the maximum benefit of treatment, or is not…”
State v. Gann, 675 P.2d 1261 (Wash. Ct. App. 1984). · cites it 2× “Following 90 days' observation, Gann was diagnosed as a sexual psychopath and committed to Western State pursuant to RCW 71.06.060. *518 Gann remained in the confined treatment program until January 1979, when he was placed on outpatient status.”
State v. Daniels, 639 P.2d 880 (Wash. Ct. App. 1982). · cites it 4× “Daniels' attorney argued unsuccessfully at the hearing that RCW 71.06.060 required the court to suspend imposition of the prison sentence and commit Daniels to the Secretary of Social and Health Services for hospitalization and treatment as a sexual psychopath.”
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