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Murder suspect DeCarlos Brown accused of killing Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on train CANNOT stand trial for the killing, shocking new legal filing states
Daily Mail ^ | 4-8-26 | Will Potter

Posted on 04/08/2026 10:35:54 PM PDT by MarlonRando

Under North Carolina state law, a defendant is only incapable to proceed to trial if they cannot understand the nature of their charges, cannot comprehend their role in court proceedings and cannot help their own defense.

Brown's attorney Daniel Roberts said the murder suspect underwent a capacity evaluation in hospital in December which he failed leading a psychiatrist to determine he is unfit to face murder charges.

Zarutska died after her throat was slashed as she sat alone on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina in August 2025.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Education
KEYWORDS: crime; decarlosbrown; injustice; irynazarutzka; murder; race; slashing
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“ I can’t go to trial, I’m too stupid.” I could never understand that defense.
1 posted on 04/08/2026 10:35:54 PM PDT by MarlonRando
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I knew that one was coming. By now he is back patrolling the streets and riding the trains looking for another victim.

You are not supposed to understand that defense. It is how murders can get to murder again, and again, and again, and again, and again. Until they die of old age.


2 posted on 04/08/2026 10:43:09 PM PDT by sport
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A little over ten percent of the population can’t stand trial then!

https://youtu.be/5-Ur71ZnNVk?si=yxA7qIIlgh1iD3Nb


3 posted on 04/08/2026 10:45:36 PM PDT by MarlonRando
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“...and cannot help their own defense.”

This is even worse. I can just hear his lawyer. “Judge, my client tells everyone he meets how he sliced that white b*$%* up, and will continue to do so in front of you and the jury. That, by definition, will not be helpful to his defense, and therefore he cannot stand trial.”


4 posted on 04/08/2026 10:45:48 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant - Never Fearful)
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so if you want to be an evil mastermind and be a serial killer, when you go to trial, do like Tom Hanks and pretend your nose is stopped up like in Forrest Gump and you can get off.


5 posted on 04/08/2026 10:52:02 PM PDT by MarlonRando
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He was smart enough murder her. He obviously knew what he was doing. The vide from the transit authority proves that. His own words on the video prove this opinion is vacuous.


6 posted on 04/08/2026 10:52:55 PM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: All

decarlos-brown-jr-

7 posted on 04/08/2026 10:55:33 PM PDT by Liz (Jonathan Swift: Govrnment without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slaveryen .)
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U.S. Attorney WDNC

@USAO_WDNC

DeCarlos Brown is in federal custody on a federal indictment. The state proceedings, including any competency finding in those proceedings, are completely separate.

https://x.com/USAO_WDNC/status/2041998211171201433?s=20


8 posted on 04/08/2026 10:58:23 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Matthew 24:32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender)
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To: MarlonRando

So what are they going to do with him?


9 posted on 04/08/2026 11:13:04 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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The guy has a life-long history of mental problems. They knew he was nuts when they released him from prison in 2020, allowing him to rack up more arrests. In January 2025, he was arrested for abusing the 911 system and then released. In July 2025, a Judge ordered a competency test conducted on him, but it was never done, and he remained free until he stabbed Iryna to death. People knew this guy was a nutcase, but they didn’t think it was important enough to incarcerate, or admit him to a hospital psych wing so that a competency test could have been conducted when the Judge ordered it. It might have saved Iryna’s life.


10 posted on 04/08/2026 11:21:35 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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I have no idea, but the logical thing would be to lock him up in mad house forever!


11 posted on 04/08/2026 11:27:27 PM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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To: aquila48

DeCarlos Brown is in federal custody on a federal indictment. The state proceedings, including any competency finding in those proceedings, are completely separate.

https://x.com/USAO_WDNC/status/2041998211171201433?s=20


12 posted on 04/08/2026 11:28:56 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Matthew 24:32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender)
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Revoke his citizenship and send him to Wakindra?


13 posted on 04/09/2026 12:09:53 AM PDT by Does so (☞"For English, press 2"...Dem☭¢rats ™ ® © ≣ ½⅓⅔¼¾ ⅛⅜⅝⅞ ⅓ ⅕ ⅖ ⅗ ⅘ ⅙ ⅚)
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This piece of #### should be executed post haste. Instead libs will coddle him.

Die mother#######. Die badly.

See my tag line.


14 posted on 04/09/2026 12:28:28 AM PDT by piytar (NEVER FORGET Ashli Babbitt, Rosanne Boyland, Corey Comperatore, Iryna Zarutska, and Charlie Kirk!)
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#### this walking piece of subhuman filth. Hope he dies badly in prison. Not my best Christian attitude but cannot help it. Hope he gets shived. Lower liver. A bad way to die. And this piece of filth deserves it.


15 posted on 04/09/2026 12:36:37 AM PDT by piytar (NEVER FORGET Ashli Babbitt, Rosanne Boyland, Corey Comperatore, Iryna Zarutska, and Charlie Kirk!)
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Her look of pure terror realizing her impending death from that racist black animal is haunting...


16 posted on 04/09/2026 12:40:38 AM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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“He was smart enough murder her. He obviously knew what he was doing. The vide from the transit authority proves that. His own words on the video prove this opinion is vacuous.”

Exactly. He was coherent enough to pick of all the people on that train the victim least likely to fight back effectively. He knew what he was doing.


17 posted on 04/09/2026 12:40:48 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: MarlonRando
A good and trusted judiciary is what prevents civil justice. Unfortunately, the American judiciary's failure will leave a vacuum that will eventually be filled by Star Chambers.

Nature and reality abhor vacuums.

18 posted on 04/09/2026 1:08:23 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (“Critical thinking is hard; that’s why most people just jump to conclusions.”—Jung (paraphrased))
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Yeah, then the people who let this monster roam the streets should be put on trial instead.


19 posted on 04/09/2026 1:15:52 AM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's okay... I wasn't married to it.)
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This man deserves swift justice.


20 posted on 04/09/2026 1:36:58 AM PDT by sauropod
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