For now, Gavin Perkins will remain in Metro Corrections on a $500,000 cash bond, a Louisville judge ordered Monday. 

The high court on Thursday ruled, in essence, that it was premature for justices to decide the constitutionality of the law because the Madden case and one like it have not concluded. 

The repeated releases of Cane Madden, who is accused of violent attacks, has renewed concerns over a decades-old problem in Kentucky: mentally ill defendants who aren’t competent to stand trial but can’t by law remain hospitalized.