A court clinician testified in a status update at Falmouth District Court Wednesday, December 23, that murder defendant Andrew M. Baily, 26, should be further evaluated at Bridgewater State Hospital.
On Monday, Mr. Baily pleaded not guilty to murdering his mother in her Mashpee home on Friday last week.
Judge Edward F.X. Lynch ruled that Mr. Baily would be held without bail pending a mental heath evaluation during the arraignment in Falmouth on Monday.
Mr. Baily is charged with domestic assault and battery, strangulation or suffocation with serious bodily injury, assault and battery on a 60-plus-year-old person with serious injury, and murder in connection with the death of his mother, Cheryl R. Crowell, 60, of Mashpee.
A court clinician testified in a status update at Falmouth District Court Wednesday, December 23, that murder defendant Andrew M. Baily, 26, should be further evaluated at Bridgewater State Hospital.
On Monday, Mr. Baily pleaded not guilty to murdering his mother in her Mashpee home on Friday last week.
Judge Edward F.X. Lynch ruled that Mr. Baily would be held without bail pending a mental heath evaluation during the arraignment in Falmouth on Monday.
Mr. Baily is charged with domestic assault and battery, strangulation or suffocation with serious bodily injury, assault and battery on a 60-plus-year-old person with serious injury, and murder in connection with the death of his mother, Cheryl R. Crowell, 60, of Mashpee.