If Chris is declared as mentally incompetent to face a jury, the state cannot just send him on his way without providing a place for him to live, especially since Chris is legally declared as indigent- he has no job to sustain himself or a place to live on his own and NONE of his relatives wants to take him in.
The problem is that Chris refuses to be put on a grupal home with other autists like him because he considers himself “normal” and above autists, and he cannot be trusted to live at a motel or at a small goverment assigned appartament because he has proved over and over to be completely uncapable to handle money- he would blow his entire disability money on toys, candy and games and leave nothing for his bills if he’s left unsupervised, so basically he’s a huge problem for the legal system and will continue being one for as long he keeps being a contrarian to every option he’s being offered.
At this point, I suppose that what Chris really NEEDS is a series of brutal body punishments to make him asociate any future misbehavior with pain, since literally anything else failed to stick on his head.