The woman who stabbed and nearly killed former Hartford police Officer Jill Kidik inside a downtown apartment three years ago was found Wednesday to have committed the attack but she was acquitted due to her documented history of schizophrenia and mental health episodes.
The ruling by Superior Court Judge David P. Gold caps the trial against 42-year-old Chevoughn Augustin — one of the first state trials since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic — and sets into a motion further psychiatric evaluations and a commitment hearing later this summer.
A judge will determine at that hearing how long Augustin should remain in the custody of the Connecticut Psychiatric Security Review Board, likely committed to the maximum-security Whiting Forensic Hospital in Middletown, as opposed to a typical criminal trial sentencing that would decide how long a convicted person should spend in prison.