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| UNC Terr to Cop Plea |
| 2006-06-21 |
| The man accused of driving a rented SUV onto the UNC campus in March and striking nine people told a judge he plans to plead guilty to the charges against him. Mohammed Taheri-Azar entered the courtroom this morning to ask that he be allowed to represent himself. A judge had ordered the public defender's office to work with him while it was determined whether he was competent. But after being told he would have to submit to a psychiatric evaluation in order to do that, the 23-year-old said he would rather keep his court-appointed lawyer. Taheri-Azar told Superior Court Judge Carl Fox he had met a few times with the psychiatrist and psychologist and "they don't appear to be very good psychologists and psychiatrists in my oinion." Taheri-Azar has said in letters and in a 911 call that he wanted to kill people to avenge Muslim deaths around the world when he drove a rented SUV through The Pit, the main gathering spot on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, March 3. Nine people were hit; all survived. Taheri-Azar is charged with nine counts of attempted murder and nine counts of felonious assault. He has been in Raleigh's Central Prison in lieu of $5.5 million bail. |
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |
| #3 A very large, tattoed, muscular and testosterone-filled man, with large hands and assorted anatomical particularities. At least, this way, some other punk will be spared. Hope Mo' is not a bleeder, though. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-06-21 18:36 |
| #2 I hope his cellmate is a very lonely man. |
| Posted by: Mike 2006-06-21 18:21 |
| #1 Hope he's not too short for prison...nine consecutive life sentences with no chance for parole or ramadan pardons should be adequate. |
| Posted by: Inspector Clueso 2006-06-21 15:23 |