Told me that, in fact, when he was arrested, he spoke with the arresting officers. he spoke with the police, he told them he did not have any involvement in this, he did not give any confessions but he did have an interview with the police. we also learned that the intention through his certain to to put in a plea of not guilty and that they are currently working on a defense psychiatric evaluation, probable no surprise the court is likely headed that way as well. also of note, this man in 2012 who was adjudicated in a courtroom as not competent to stand trial effectively treated for six months and deemed competent apparently yesterday was able to give yes or no answers to some brief questioning that that attorney had with his brand new client. i want to bring in dr. gail
Weight will come forward, we need a psychological evaluation immediately. he may not be competent for trial. he is not speaking to anyone. his lawyer is going forward. tomorrow will be the first day in court. he definitely won t. the defense is going to ask the government to pay for a defense psychiatric evaluation and a lot is going on before anybody enters a plea. what about doing a deal? death penalty, these are crimes that are death penalty eligible. would prosecutors ever do a deal to avoid a trial? that will be difficult. we talked a little bit about it. it qualified in a number of ways under the death penalty statute. you have arguably an enormous amount of premeditation but not just a cover-up but the