“All prisoners with mental illness will be back on the street. They are warehoused in jail, but one day those doors will open. What happens to them then?” CBS Miami journalist Jim DeFede
Amidst a clear cognitive decline that has been acknowledged by everyone from his father to defense attorneys and a judge, Daniel Weisberger, an Upper Keys teen charged with murder, was
A judge ruled Tuesday that an Upper Keys teenager accused of killing his brother and attempting to kill his father is not mentally competent to stand trial at this time.
Florida State Hospital in Chattahoochee, west of Tallahassee, where Zarut Jean-Pierre Theolin is likely to be committed until she is restored to competency to face trial on charges of attempted kidnapping and burglary. (Wikimedia Commons)
Zarut Jean-Pierre Theolin, the troubled 26-year-old Palm Coast woman arrested on a burglary and attempted kidnapping of a child in a case that rattled three W-Section families on March 3–hers included–was judged incompetent to stand trial today and will be sent to a state mental hospital in Chattahoochee for treatment.
Circuit Judge Terence Perkins all but formally ratified the findings of Dr. Roger Davis, a Jacksonville psychologist, who found Jean-Pierre Theolin incompetent after evaluating her at the Flagler County jail. Perkins was ready to sign the order of incompetency today. He did not do so only because Jean-Pierre Theolin faces a burglary charge in Volusia County, where Circuit Judge Dennis Craig also ordered her competency evaluated