Michael Barisone will stay at Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, a judge ruled this week, until his future can be discussed again in November at another Krol hearing.
In New Jersey, Krol hearings are held periodically to judge the progress of a criminal defendant who has been confined to a psychiatric institution following a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity.
Judge Stephen Taylor in Morristown, N.J., on May 26 listened to psychologists and a psychiatrist discuss where the dressage trainer should get treatment. Last year, Barisone was found not guilty by reason of insanity on a charge of second-degree attempted murder in connection with the shooting of a tenant on his Long Valley, N.J., farm.
The 2008 U.S. Olympic dressage team alternate was sent to the state’s Anne Klein Forensic Center before being transferred to Greystone in Parsippany last October. A psychologist presented by his lawyers maintained he can’t get the help he needs at Greystone, a state facility, and instead should be able to get daily treatment at a private facility on an outpatient basis.
A lawyer for the Morris County Prosecutor’s office suggested scheduling the next Krol hearing in six months, awaiting a Greystone recommendation on Barisone “that it would be appropriate for him to go out into the community safely.”