Posted on 07/17/2008 10:29:22 AM PDT by Domandred
U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge said Thursday he will have to schedule a hearing to determine whether confessed killer Joseph Duncan is mentally competent enough to continue with his oft-delayed death penalty sentencing hearing.
Duncan has been undergoing mental health evaluations in Boise and Seattle since May. The latest wrinkle in the case is that his current defense attorneys have filed a motion to have him declared mentally incompetent.
Testimony in the sentencing hearing was was supposed to begin in May but has been on hold since Duncan requested to act as his own lawyer -- on the day the individual questioning of a pool of 300 prospective jurors was supposed to begin.
Lodge told Duncan at the time of his request on April 19 that his initial reaction was that Duncan was competent but ordered the mental evaluation because of the high stakes of the hearing. He also advised Duncan to reconsider the decision to fire his lawyers.
Federal prosecutors also believe Duncan is competent to go forward with the hearing.
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There is no doubt he did what he did. There is no doubt he knew what he was doing. And there is no doubt that he planned and carried it out.
OK he’s not competent to stand trial, he’s MORE THAN COMPETENT to stand trial. This subhuman was not bad with a computer, methodically planned and executed a triple murder so he could get his hands on an eight year old, survived in the woods for six weeks (during which time he murdered Dylan) and he wants to claim he’s nonfunctional? [Was it six weeks or was it a couple months?]
He’s more functional than a lot of people, but unlike them, he doesn’t deserve to breathe another breath.
you took the post right off of my computer. This guy is too evil and smart to live.
the execution should be public, televised, painful and slow.
very slow
Hang the bastard now.
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