Lonnie Johnson
(CNN) — A Utah judge has ordered a registered sex offender who faces nearly two dozen charges of child sex abuse released on the basis that he is mentally incompetent to stand trial.
At a hearing on Thursday, Fourth District Judge James Taylor, who previously ruled Lonnie Johnson incompetent to be tried on sex crime charges, said there were no legal grounds for holding him.
“We are at the end of the road…I can’t do anything but have him released from the state hospital,” Taylor said at Thursday’s hearing.
PHILIP ROSENBAUM 