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1. Before the judgment has become final and has been
enforced, the court takes charge of the case and
decides to start the process of applying compulsory
medical measures;
2. Where the sentence has already been enforced,
the court of the place of enforcement shall, on
application by the executing authority, decide
to initiate proceedings for the imposition of
compulsory medical measures on the basis of the
criminal record.100
The basis for the transition from the pre-trial investigation
in the general procedure to the process of application
of compulsory medical treatment is the obtaining of
the court psychiatric examination report101, which states
that: 1) at the time of committing a crime, a person was
unable to appreciate the dangerous nature of the act or
to control their behaviour; 2) a person develops a mental
health condition after the commission of a criminal act
before the case was brought to court; or 3) a person is
‘mentally disturbed’ at the time of the forensic psychiatric
examination and there is no way to determine whether
it occurred during the commission of the act or after it
was committed.102 It is notable that one of the research
Article 394 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Republic of
Lithuania, 2002, No. IX-785. Available at: https://bit.ly/3tMjRdy.
101 Bučiūnas, G., Gruodytė, E., Šalčius, M. (2017) Ikiteisminis tyrimas:
procesiniai, kriminalistiniai ir praktiniai aspektai.
102 Order of the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Lithuania “On
the Recommendations on the Procedure for the Application of Compulsory
Medical Measures in Pre-Trial Investigation”, No I-125, 13 May 2013.
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