Posted on 09/17/2024 1:52:54 AM PDT by Phoenix8
CLEVELAND — The suspect accused of fatally stabbing 3-year-old Julian Wood earlier this summer in a Giant Eagle parking lot has been ordered to an inpatient treatment facility after being deemed incompetent to stand trial for the time being.
According to Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas records, Ellis was undergoing a 20-day evaluation when the doctor treating her stated: "that the defendant is incompetent to stand trial, but that there is a substantial probability of restoration to competency within the statutory time frame if provided with a course of treatment."
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She has been deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial. This could now proceed several ways including her case being dismissed, being tried later after treatment, reduced sentencing, etc.
I can’t help but notice what is absent in the article is concern about the dear sweet little boy Julian Wood. His entire life being horrifically ended prematurely by a homeless, hateful, psychotic monster.
I miss Wild West Justice.
It was obvious back in June that this animal was mentally deficient and dangerous and needs dealt with in a severe manor.
Treatment = Put the Violent Animal Down!
If I was a judge I would have to let most murderers out based on them being mentally incompetent.
They were driving drunk and hit a pedestrian - that’s crazy!
They were stealing $20 and shot the victim - that’s crazy!
They got in an argument with the tenant upstairs and killed them - that’s crazy!
I wonder about the victim’s family: if the judge lets this demon go the family can just take care of business.
“We’ll give him a fair trial, then we’ll hang him.” - Judge Roy Bean, The Law West of the Pecos.............
Well, it's a good thing you're not a judge then because none of your examples have anything to do with competency to stand trial.
Someone on the comments board on X said they were in the mental health field.
(For what that’s worth).
They said from what they have seen on previous cases her story will likely go like this: put in a hospital for the insane and become medicated, stay there for 2-4 years, get out on supervision, after a few months her care will be relaxed, she will wean herself off the meds, go back to unstable behavior, commit another violent act.
Which is why I always had the opinion being criminally insane isn’t a reason to let people put,, it’s a reason to lock them up and throw the key away.
Every neighborhood needs a godfather.
She may or may not commit future acts of violence.
However, whoever posted on X is off the mark.
Competency to stand trial is not the same as criminal responsibility (not guilty by reason of insanity or NGRI.) Competency to stand trial involves an evaluation of very simple things. Does the individual have the ability to understand the charges brought against them? Does she understand the role of the judge, the jury, the prosecutor, the defender? Is there at least some rudimentary understanding of sentences and so forth?
She will be placed involuntarily in a secure mental health setting and treated for her underlying mental illness. Once she has been treated, the courts will need to decide if the treatment brought her to the level of competency to stand trial. IOW did the treatment allow her to understand and respond to all the questions I just raised.
If she is found competent to stand trial, then the issue of criminality can be raised, that is, is she not guilty by reason of insanity. This defense is not very commonly used and is not frequently successful despite what people might think.
There is a different set of criteria for criminal responsibility that would need to be considered at that time.
But nothing can happen until she is competent to stand trial and she will receive treatment to try to restore her to that capacity.
Say their names.
They still exist. Clifton T. Perkins Hospital for the Criminally Insane
Actually that was one of the 2 biggest mistakes of my favorite president (or 1 of my favs).
The Gipper.
The other being his amnesty.
She will be in in-patient treatment. Meaning institutionalized. Not free.
From what I’ve seen traveling the U.S., half the blacks need to be institutionalized. They have the intelligence of a turkey, which is the dumbest critter on the earth.
That’s exactly what I was thinking.
THE ACLU HAMMERED REAGAN.
IT WASN’T HIS IDEA
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