kwingert@messengernews.net
The attempted murder trial for a Fort Dodge man accused of stabbing a 71-year-old woman in October 2020 has been suspended pending the results of a competency evaluation.
Reino Valentino Bodady, 37, was set to go to trial today in Webster County District Court. He was charged with attempted murder, a Class B felony, after police say he stabbed a female relative with a knife in the neck and abdomen in the early hours of Oct. 26.
However, during the final pretrial hearing on Monday afternoon, Bodady’s defense attorney, Judd Parker, said that after meeting with his client several times over the weekend, he was concerned that Bodady “is not appreciating the proceedings or able to effectively assist in his defense.”
Iowa DOC pushed bill to remove OSHA protections from workers kcci.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kcci.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
At 10 a.m. Saturday, Iowa reported 679 more positive test results of COVID-19 and six new COVID-19-related death since the state s tally Friday morning, according to Coronavirus.Iowa.gov.
Officials report a total of 5,849 people with COVID-19 have died from the disease across the state, including 80 in Johnson County. The county s first death due to the disease was reported April 4, 2020.
Deaths reported are not deaths that have occurred within the past 24 hours, but only represent deaths that were added to the Iowa Department of Public Health s public dashboard within the past 24 hours. It often takes more than a week or even two or three for a death to be added to the state s dashboard after a person has died.
Just weeks after an attack that left two Anamosa State Penitentiary employees dead, Iowa corrections officials have barred government investigators from accessing the grounds of another state prison facility to investigate safety complaints.
Russell Perry, administrator of the Iowa Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and the Iowa Department of Correction confirmed that inspectors from IOSHA had not been allowed to enter the Iowa Medical and Classification Center in Coralville.
The incident came to light in a news release Friday by a union representing Iowa corrections workers.
In a statement, Danny Homan, president of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 61, which had filed safety complaints against the center, expressed anger over the barring of the inspectors.