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. <http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/rss/ci_12525284?source=rss>http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/rss/ci_12525284?source=rss Powered by LSoft's LISTSERV(R) list management software