Driver accused in Canton road rage assault competent to stand trial
By Cassandra Nist - The Repository, Canton, Ohio
Ralph White with his dog Shania whom he thought was lost after the road rage attack but was later found by Canton Police.
Kevin Whitlock - The Independent
CANTON – The driver accused of assaulting a retired steelworker following a car crash has been deemed competent to stand trial.
“He was found legally sane at the time of the case,” defense attorney Ty Graham said following Thursday’s competency hearing in Judge Natalie Haupt’s Common Pleas courtroom.
Travonce Backie, 32, of Canton, had pleaded not guilty reason of insanity, leading to a court-ordered sanity evaluation. The results came back July 7 and concluded Backie was legally sane at the time of the confrontation.
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Stark County Common Pleas Judge Natalie Haupt issued the ruling Wednesday morning.
Haupt ordered Joe and Colleen Beasley, owners of the restaurant at 13367 Cleveland Ave. NW in Lake Township, to follow rules set in the Dine Safe Ohio order issued last summer by the Ohio Department of Health.
The restaurant must comply with and enforce the face covering requirements, and all other requirements of the health orders, Haupt wrote in the ruling. The court order was effective immediately.
Wednesday afternoon, when contacted at the restaurant, Beasley declined to comment because he still hadn t received a copy of Haupt s ruling. Beasley and his employees at the restaurant weren t wearing masks at the time.