Garrett Leyva, suspected of killing two Hanford siblings, has been found competent to stand trial. On Wednesday, however, his competency hearing was pushed to next week as a result of an agreement between the prosecution and the defendantâs legal counsel.
Visiting Judge James Hollman moved the hearing to Tuesday, July 6 because Leyvaâs attorney Jamil Nushwat was unable to be at the hearing. Nushwat agreed to the rescheduling via a Zoom call he took in his car.
âWhat happens is generally, an attorney expresses a doubt as to their clientâs competence, thatâs what happened here and generally, itâs the defense attorney, said Kings County Executive Assistant District Attorney Phil Esbenshade. So the court will suspend criminal proceedings â thatâs where we are now â proceedings are suspended. And so a preliminary hearing will not take place until theyâre reinstated.â
One convicted killer has been accused of beheading another in what authorities call an exceptionally sadistic torture slaying at a California prison. Corcoran.
An inspector general's report says prison guards failed to notice that a convicted murderer allegedly decapitated, tortured, and dissected his cellmate.
Shortly after the torture slaying and beheading of a convicted killer apparently at the hands of his cellmate prison guards in California making their rounds reported that both men were alive