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09-23-2006, 04:50 AM
http://www.nwcn.com/statenews/washington/stories/NW_092206WABsullivantrialLJ.77ca7eb.html
12:58 PM PDT on Friday, September 22, 2006
From KGW.com Staff
VANCOUVER, Wash. -- A Vancouver man accused of stabbing a 17-year-old girl to death inside a McDonald’s restaurant earlier this year is expected to go on trial in early January.
In court Friday, a judge ruled that David Sullivan is mentally competent to stand trial.
Sullivan’s attorneys, however, entered a plea of innocent by means of insanity.
In August, mental health experts told the judge that Sullivan is mentally competent. Mental experts at Western State Hospital in Tacoma completed a psychiatric evaluation of Sullivan, 28, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, after the court requested it during his initial arraignment.
Sullivan will stand trial for allegedly killing 17-year-old Anna Svidersky last April.
**SCHNIPP**
Good. I am personally relieved that this guy is going to stand trial.
12:58 PM PDT on Friday, September 22, 2006
From KGW.com Staff
VANCOUVER, Wash. -- A Vancouver man accused of stabbing a 17-year-old girl to death inside a McDonald’s restaurant earlier this year is expected to go on trial in early January.
In court Friday, a judge ruled that David Sullivan is mentally competent to stand trial.
Sullivan’s attorneys, however, entered a plea of innocent by means of insanity.
In August, mental health experts told the judge that Sullivan is mentally competent. Mental experts at Western State Hospital in Tacoma completed a psychiatric evaluation of Sullivan, 28, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, after the court requested it during his initial arraignment.
Sullivan will stand trial for allegedly killing 17-year-old Anna Svidersky last April.
**SCHNIPP**
Good. I am personally relieved that this guy is going to stand trial.