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Post by Logan on Jan 27, 2016 21:26:12 GMT -6
The man accused of killing three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic has been transferred to the state hospital in Pueblo for a mental health evaluation. And a judge on Tuesday rejected a defense effort to block evaluators from asking Robert Lewis Dear Jr. about facts in the case or his mental state at the time. In a motion filed on Jan. 20, defense attorneys for Dear revealed they "received information" that the 57-year-old had been transferred to the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo. Dear faces 179 counts — including eight charges of first-degree murder — for the Nov. 27 attack at the Colorado Springs clinic. The 57-year-old was arrested after a standoff with police that lasted more than five hours. Read more: www.denverpost.com/news/ci_29441325/planned-parenthood-shooting-suspect-transferred-state-hospitalCross-posted on the General Discussion sub-board.
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