A circuit court judge’s decision to release a confessed double-killer to an elder care facility in Aiken County may not be appealable, according to the state Court of Appeals, which gave prosecutors 10 days to argue otherwise.
Seventh Circuit Solicitor Barry Barnette had asked the appeals court to overturn Judge J. Mark Hayes II’s November 2024 order releasing Casey Allen Douglas from a state mental hospital to an elder care home in Monetta, S.C. Douglas had been charged with stabbing and killing his girlfriend and her father in 2018.
Barnette argued that placing Douglas in the Aiken County facility would create a threat to the facility and community…