Troubles don't seem to end for Amanda Bynes as a Los Angeles court has moved the drunken driving case against the mentally ill actress to the mental health court at the request of her attorney. The 27-year-old has been deemed "mentally unfit to stand trial" according to her lawyer Rich Hutton on Tuesday.

Amanda Bynes was supposed to appear in a Los Angeles courtroom for a Driving Under Influence (DUI) case stemming from her April 2012 arrest but she missed the date as her lawyer Hutton appealed to the court that Bynes was not in a mental state to understand the legal proceedings. The former Nickelodeon star has been under court-ordered psychiatric care after she allegedly started a small fire in front of a home in the Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks in July.

According to a spokesperson from the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office, Bynes lawyer declared a 1368 PC [Penal Code] hearing to declare a doubt to mental competency.

"Her attorney declared a 1368 PC [Penal Code] hearing to declare a doubt to mental competency. The parties will be due back in court on January 14, 2014 for a progress report," the spokesperson told US Weekly. The next date now falls on January 7 and the star will remain in psychiatric care till then.

The troubled Bynes is under trail for her 2012 DUI case that was slapped on the star in West Hollywood after the actress struck a patrol car and refused to take a sobriety test. She pleaded not guilty.

Bynes, who got fame at a tender age of 13 with her own TV series "The Amanda Show," has recently been in news for her wild behaviour, erratic Twitter messages and her tryst with law and order. The troubled star could end up spending another year under an involuntary code at a psychiatric hospital in Los Angeles.

Bynes mother, Lynn Bynes still has temporary conservatorship over her as she remains under hospital care. The former Nickelodeon princess also faces charges in New York for possession of illegal drugs namely marijuana. Bynes also threw a glass out of her 36th-floor Manhattan apartment.

Bynes is staying at the UCLA Medical Center after transferring from Hillmont Psychiatric Center in Ventura, California at the end of August.

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