YOUNGSTOWN A man accused of holding dozens of law enforcement officers at bay for three hours at a home on Aberdeen Avenue on the South Side last summer is competent to stand trial.
Attorney Lou DeFabio told Judge Maureen Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday that he and defendant Brandon Turjonis will not challenge the findings contained in a report from the Forensic Psychiatric Center of Northeast Ohio in Austintown that Turjonis is competent to stand trial.
Under Ohio law, a person cannot be tried in court if he or she is incapable of understanding the nature and objective of the proceedings against him or her, and assisting in his or her defense.
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Allan Schoenborn meant to kill his children but psychotic delusions robbed him of his ability to know what he was doing was wrong, a judge ruled today.
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Robert Powers convicted Schoenborn of the first-degree murder of Kaitlynne, 10, Max, 8 and Cordon, 5, but found him not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder.
Justice Power s written decision can be found at http://www.courts.gov.bc.ca/jdb-txt/SC/10/02/2010BCSC0220.htm.
He cited evidence pointing to a long history of mental illness, as well as psychotic behaviour in the months, weeks and days leading up to the killings on April 6, 2008, in Merritt.
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LISBON A Salem woman is facing a competency evaluation and an additional theft charge for an alleged shoplifting spree in Salem Monday.
Diana Andre, 40, of Newgarden Avenue, was arraigned Thursday in county Municipal Court on the misdemeanor charge alleging she stole merchandise from True Value Hardware in Salem.
A request for a competency to stand trial exam was ordered to be completed at the Forensic Psychiatric Center of Northeast Ohio.
Andre was taken into custody by Salem police after officers caught her with a stolen pink backpack loaded with other stolen items after thefts from several Salem stores Monday evening. Her bond had been set at $2,500 cash or surety and she remained in jail.