CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cuyahoga County prosecutors are backing a bill that aims to extend the mental competency restoration period for aggravated murder and murder defendants from one year to five years.
It would automatically pause this period if a defendant refuses court-ordered medication.
The legislative push is directly prompted by the case of De’Lawnte Hardy, who is accused of killing a Cleveland police officer and his grandmother, and whose refusal of medication complicated his competency restoration within the current one-year limit…