Actual 'get-out-of-jail-free' card? Too incompetent to be charged with rape, but can't be committed

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Because he is apparently not a danger to society.

"A convicted sex offender facing nearly two dozen charges of child sex abuse may be soon be set free because doctors says he's no danger to society even though he's not mentally competent for trial.

Lonnie Hyrum Johnson was charged in 2007 in Utah with rape, sodomy and aggravated sexual abuse of a child for alleged acts with his niece and her step-cousin between 2001 and 2006.

Each charge is a first-degree felony. If convicted at a trial, the 38-year-old Johnson would face life sentences for every count. Instead, it appears he will be freed sometime soon after a hearing Thursday afternoon.

Deemed incompetent for trial by a judge in 2008, Johnson has been institutionalized at Utah State Hospital in Provo, about 45 miles north of Salt Lake City, where doctors have been working to restore his mental capacity.

(BUT, he can't be made competent and is not dangerous.)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_incompetent_sex_offender

Says he suffers from a "cognitive disorder", that falls into the realm of amnesia, dementia, delirium, and other things. So, yep, just remember what a cognitive disorder is.