ATLANTA — If the scene in the spin room after the end of Thursday’s presidential debate is any indication, the Republicans got what they wanted — and Democrats got what they most feared. Former president Donald Trump’s surrogates — a cast of over a dozen campaign aides, sitting members of Congress and Republican National Committee […]
Well, the idea that President Joe Biden would be pumped up with performance-enhancing drugs was soundly debunked during Thursday’s presidential debate. It was, for an 81-year-old incumbent president who needed to show people his age is not a factor, an unmitigated disaster. Biden seemed to lose his train of thought at one point early in […]
May 30—GOSHEN — Elkhart County Circuit Court agreed to have an evidentiary hearing on competency for a man accused of attempting to murder his father. Dominique Edwards is accused of shooting and injuring his father, Anthony Shaw, while at Shaw’s home along the 1600 block of Stevens Avenue in Elkhart on the night of Nov. […]
May 28—A forensic psychological evaluation has been ordered for a 74-year-old Hamilton woman charged with robbing a credit union after her defense attorney questioned her competency to stand trial. Investigators said Ann Mayers removed the license plate from her car on April 19, drove from Hamilton to a credit union, robbed it — getting less […]
A Martha’s Vineyard man wanted in connection with a homicide investigation in Connecticut and weekend stabbing spree on the South Shore publicly urinated in a McDonald’s drive-thru in Plymouth before stabbing employees there, prosecutors said in court on Tuesday. Jared Ravizza, 26, of Chilmark on Martha’s Vineyard, was ordered held pending a competency hearing as […]
Apr. 24—A competency trial for an Oklahoma death row inmate scheduled to be executed in June was continued. Wade Lay, 63, was set to be the first inmate executed in America in 2022 before a southeast Oklahoma district judge ordered a stay in December 2021. Under a now struck state law, District 18 District Attorney […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN)- The family of a murdered college student fears they may never see justice. On Wednesday, April 3, the man accused of shooting a Belmont University student in an Edgehill park appeared in court. However, the case is complicated and may never go to trial. That’s because three doctors previously found the suspect […]
Mar. 4—ALBUQUERQUE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said she is leaning toward calling a special legislative session to address two public safety issues that did not reach her desk during the recently completed annual meeting of the state Legislature. During a news conference Monday at an Albuquerque high school where she signed four public safety […]
Feb. 24—A competency trial for an Oklahoma death row inmate is scheduled to start in April — more than two years after the petition for a competency trial was first filed. Wade Lay was set to be the first inmate executed in America in 2022 before a southeast Oklahoma district judge ordered a stay in […]
Feb. 15—James Armstrong, charged with murder in the shooting death of his cousin in North Stonington in 2017 but never prosecuted because of mental illness, has successfully rebuffed attempts by state prosecutors to challenge his competency to stand trial. New London County Assistant State’s Attorney Theresa Ferryman, who requested an independent competency evaluation of Armstrong […]
An Oklahoma County jail detainee whose delayed acceptance into a treatment program at the Oklahoma Forensic Center in Vinita prompted a judge’s contempt order in late January is just one of several hundred who needed competency evaluations before standing trial in Oklahoma County District Court during the past several years. Data about those detainees, including […]
Jan. 18—ANDERSON — A competency hearing has been set in April for Carl Roy Webb Boards in the death penalty case for the July 2022 murder of Elwood police officer Noah Shahnavaz. Madison Circuit Court Division 3 Judge Andrew Hopper Thursday set the hearing date for a competency hearing. Hopper said the competency hearing will […]