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Eugene

(61,894 posts) Thu Apr 28, 2016, 02:43 PM Apr 2016

Mental Exam Focus of Hearing in Colorado Clinic Shooting

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Source: Associated Press

A police detective said the man who acknowledges killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic told people after his arrest that he believes a move by defense attorneys to have him declared mentally incompetent is part of a plot to diminish his message opposing abortion.

Colorado Springs Detective Jerry Schiffelbein testified Thursday that 57-year-old Robert Dear made a number of phone calls after he was charged with 179 counts including murder, attempted murder and assault for the Nov. 27 shooting that also injured nine. He said Dear told people he believed federal agents were out to get him before he decided to make his last stand by attacking what he called the "evilest place on Earth."

A judge ordered Dear's mental evaluation after he announced he wanted to fire his public defenders and represent himself.

His defense wants him committed to a psychiatric hospital. If a judge agrees, Dear's case would stall indefinitely while he gets treatment.

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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/mental-exam-focus-hearing-colorado-clinic-shooting-38724469

By SADIE GURMAN, ASSOCIATED PRESS
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Apr 28, 2016, 2:11 PM ET

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Update: Planned Parenthood alleged killer is delusional, experts say (USA Today)

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Mental Exam Focus of Hearing in Colorado Clinic Shooting (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2016 OP

Those anti-choice murders are real dangerous. fasttense Apr 2016 #1

He probably is mentally unfit for a trial maxsolomon Apr 2016 #2

Planned Parenthood alleged killer is delusional, experts say Eugene Apr 2016 #3

fasttense

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1. Those anti-choice murders are real dangerous.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Apr 28, 2016, 04:44 PM

Apr 2016

If they don't get you at the clinic, they will shoot you down in church because they love God so much.

maxsolomon

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2. He probably is mentally unfit for a trial

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Apr 28, 2016, 04:54 PM

Apr 2016

that's the genius of stochastic terrorism; you set the pawns in motion, but you have deniability.

Eugene

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3. Planned Parenthood alleged killer is delusional, experts say

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Thu Apr 28, 2016, 09:18 PM

Apr 2016

Source: USA Today

Planned Parenthood alleged killer is delusional, experts say

Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY 8:22 p.m. EDT April 28, 2016

COLORADO SPRINGS -- The man who admits to killing three people during a November attack on a Planned Parenthood clinic here is delusional and incompetent, two state forensic evaluators say.

A judge must now decide whether Robert Dear will stand trial or be indefinitely confined to a state mental hospital. Dear admits to the gun attack that killed police officer Garrett Swasey, a father of two, Army veteran Ke'Arre Stewart, a father of two, and Jennifer Markovsky, a mother of two. None of the three worked for Planned Parenthood. Nine other people were injured in the Nov. 27 attack.

Dear has called abortion "Satanic sacrifice" and told police he believes the souls of babies will greet him in Heaven with thanks for attacking the clinic and temporarily halting abortions.

"Judgment is getting ready to fall on America for 100 million babies," Dear said loudly as he entered court Thursday.

Dear disagrees that he's incompetent, and repeatedly interrupted the court hearing to interject and "get the record straight." Dear initially wanted to plead guilty to the attack but apparently balked when prosecutors filed 179 charges, including first-degree murder, for which he could be executed.

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