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A mentally incompetent man faced with a charge of attempted murder in Killington has been granted permission to move from the Springfield jail to a psychiatric care center in West Burke.
Rutland Judge Cortland Corsones issued a decision Friday that granted a state Department of Health request to move 55-year-old Mark A. Sailor from the jail to the Eagle Eye Farm Rehabilitation Center where he will live in a home while under 24-hour surveillance.
The Health Department’s request was contested by Rutland County State’s Attorney Marc Brierre, who said he would bring Sailor to trial if the New Jersey man is ever deemed competent to stand trial, and by the woman Sailor allegedly stabbed, Barbara Ashworth.
But in a six-page decision issued by Corsones a week after the hearing, the judge said the law required a balance between public safety and the criminal system and Sailor’s mental health treatment needs.
“The victim’s concerns are entirely reasonable, however, the court must follow the law and the law requires the court to ‘determine whether there exists an available program of treatment for the person which is an appropriate alternative to hospitalization,’” Corsones wrote.