ウィスコンシン州の裁判所は、13歳のジェイコブ・バワーマンさんを溺死させた過失致死の罪に問われているタイラー・バーチ被告について、裁判を受ける能力があると判断した。バーチ被告とペイトン・カルノット被告は昨年、泳げない少年を桟橋から湖に投げ込んだ疑いが持たれている。両名は2025年8月に発生したこの事件に関連し、刑事訴追されている。
21歳のタイラー・バーチ被告は4月2日、マリネット郡巡回裁判所にリモートで出廷し、心理学者の報告書によって裁判を受ける能力があることが確認された。弁護側と検察側の双方がこの結果を受け入れ、以前の争われていた判断が覆された。WBAY-TV 11ニュースの地方裁判報道によると、バーチ被告の次回の審問は4月30日に予定されている。
A judge in Maine has ruled that teenager Deven Young is competent to stand trial for the 2025 murder of paddleboarder Sunshine Stewart. The decision came after Young, now 18, was accused of killing the 48-year-old on Crawford Pond and misleading investigators. The ruling did not address whether he will be tried as an adult or juvenile.
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A Georgia man charged with murder has been deemed competent to stand trial despite removing his own eyes and biting off part of his tongue while in custody. Robert Brandon Keller faces multiple charges related to the stabbing death of Bruce Dupree in October 2024. Psychologists concluded that his self-mutilation occurred after the alleged crimes and did not affect his ability to understand the proceedings.
A Milwaukee couple has been charged with chronic neglect of a child following the death of their one-year-old baby in February. Authorities allege the parents left the infant and a six-year-old sibling unsupervised multiple times and that the mother may have given the baby alcohol.
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Logan Kruckenberg Anderson, now 21, received a life sentence with possible release after 45 years for fatally shooting his newborn daughter in 2021. The case continues as his defense filed a post-sentencing motion. Prosecutors described the act as an attempt to erase a problem.