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| Planned Parenthood Shooter Wants to Act as Own Lawyer |
| 2015-12-24 |
| [ABCNEWS.GO] A man who acknowledges killing three people in an attack on a Colorado Planned Parenthood ...has received federal funding since 1970, when President Richard Nixon signed into law the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act. It is sometimes described as the gynecololgical wing of the Democratic party. clinic defiantly told a judge Wednesday that he would not submit to a mental competency evaluation and wanted to fire his public defender and represent himself. Robert Dear, 57, interrupted Judge Gilbert A. Martinez during a hearing where Martinez went ahead and ordered the evaluation to determine whether Dear is capable of deciding to represent himself. Martinez told Dear it was his right to refuse to answer an evaluator's questions. Dear replied that if he did not cooperate, a doctor would declare him incompetent and "administer the drug treatment and make me a zombie." "Do I sound like a zombie? Do I sound like I have no intelligence?" he asked the judge. Dear, unkempt and wearing blue jail scrubs, repeatedly interrupted the status hearing held to discuss a range of issues related to the Nov. 27 shooting at the Colorado Springs clinic. Martinez at one point warned Dear that whatever he said could be used against him and advised him to trust his lawyers. "How can I trust my attorney when he says I'm incompetent in the newspaper?" Dear replied. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Looks like that was his lawyer's strategy. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2015-12-24 00:28 |
| #1 Is he going to plead insanity? |
| Posted by: gorb 2015-12-24 00:10 |