By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
The (Aberdeen) Daily World reports that Lewis County Judge Richard Brosey decided yesterday accused courthouse attacker Steven Daniel Kravetz is competent to stand trial for the March incidents inside the Grays Harbor County courthouse, after doctors at the state mental hospital disagreed with each other about the defendant’s mental fitness.
News reporter Brionna Friedrich writes defense attorney David Arcuri told the judge it’s impossible to represent Kravetz with his current mental state, because Kravetz is fixated on a prior incident in which he felt victimized by Grays Harbor County.
“It has been virtually impossible to discuss with him in any meaningful fashion the facts of this case,” she quotes Arcuri as saying. “All he wants to do is go back to the 2005 case.”
Brosey is hearing the case. because one of the two victims was a Grays Harbor County judge and judges there recused themselves. If it proceeds to trial, that would occur in Grays Harbor County with Brosey presiding, according to Lewis County Superior Court Administrator Susie Parker.
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Read “Courthouse attacker found competent” from The (Aberdeen) Daily World on Thursday August 30, 2012, here