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ALFRED, Maine Jeffrey Buchannan had been scheduled to appear in court Wednesday morning for a status conference in his prosecution for the alleged murder of Rhonda Pattelena, but the hearing was postponed.
Buchannan s defense attorney, Jon C. Gale, asked the judge for a delay of at least 30 days because state authorities have not yet completed their examination of the defendant and issued their report, according to court documents.
During an initial court appearance March 30, York County Superior Court Judge Wayne R. Douglas had ordered that Buchannan undergo a mental health evaluation and be held without bail. Douglas said he expects the matter will proceed to a grand jury.
Mom, 35, is beaten to death with a rock by the father of her two-year-old son on beach in Maine when he saw her make a hand gesture to another man
Officers detained Jeffrey Buchannan, 33, of Bedford, Massachusetts and found Rhonda Pattelena, 35, also of Bedford, dead behind a rock on Short Sands Beach
The state medical examiner s office on Saturday ruled Pattelena s death a homicide caused by blunt force injury to the head
Buchannan was charged with murder and is in custody at York County Jail
Pattelena had three children, with the two oldest being 17 and 14
She and Buchannan shared a two-year-old son together
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