JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) -- A man who killed his sister in 1984 won't be moving from a state mental hospital to an adult group home in Madison after all.

Forty-four-year-old Mark Staskal has been treated at Mendota Mental Health Institute since being found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect in the stabbing death of his younger sister, Marcy, at their parents' Milton home.

A judge this week approved a conditional release plan that called for Staskal to be transferred to the group home in Madison within two weeks, but opposition to the idea soon developed. Among other concerns, opponents noted the group home is near an elementary school.

Staskal's attorney Phil Brehm says was told it was a "difficult decision" for the group home operator not to take Staskal as a resident as planned.

Brehm says he was not given a specific reason for the turnabout, but his impression was that the public outcry figured in the decision.

When Staskal was released to a group home in Eau Claire last November, his parents opposed the move, contending he was diagnosed years ago with paranoid schizophrenia and had not made enough progress to be released.

A judge approved the release, but Staskal was returned to Mendota after residents in his Eau Claire neighborhood raised complaints.