Juries have twice this year deadlocked over efforts to release.
Schmidt, 37, was convicted of sodomizing and drowning a 3-year-old
girl in Lompico in 1988. He was 16 at the time and tried as a
juvenile. Most juvenile inmates are released from the state system
when they turn 25, but in Schmidt's case, the District Attorney's
Office has employed a little-used provision of state law to extend
Schmidt's incarceration because they believe he has a mental disorder
that makes him a danger to the public.
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