(The Center Square) – Morgan Geyser’s lawyer wants her sent back to the state mental hospital.
Attorney Tony Cotton wrote the judge in Geyser’s escape case, asking that she be moved out of the Waukesha County Jail.
“Given that she has no new criminal charges in Waukesha County and given that she has been previously found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect on the underlying offense, it is our position that she should be housed in a mental health facility, not a correctional institution,” Cotton wrote to the judge.
Geyser has been in jail since last week when she was brought back from Illinois following her escape from a group home in Madison.
Geyser spent the better part of a decade in the mental hospital in Winnebago after being found not guilty of attempted murder because of mental defect or disorder.
Geyser and a second stabber nearly killed a third girl when they were all 12. Geyser originally pleaded guilty, but that guilty plea was later set aside. She was sentenced to 40 years in the mental hospital.
A judge ruled in March that her mental health had improved enough for Geyser to leave the mental hospital. After a few months of searching, she was released to a group home in Madison.
It was at that home that police say Geyser cut off her court-ordered GPS ankle bracelet and fled. She wasn’t reported missing until the next day and wasn’t captured until the day after that.
It’s unclear if Geyser will face new charges in Madison. Police there say that’s where she cut off her ankle monitor and made her escape.
There is also no word if the man who police say helped Geyser escape will face charges. His charges would come in Dane County.
Prosecutors there have been silent so far.
