Federal prosecutors in Virginia are objecting to a request for a
court-ordered psychiatric evaluation for a man who admitted to firing
shots at the Pentagon, the Marine Corps Museum in Quantico and other
military buildings.
The prosecutors say Yonathan Melaku, who faces a 25-year prison
sentence after pleading guilty in January to the overnight shootings, is
mentally competent to proceed to sentencing and that there’s no
information to suggest he suffers from a mental disease or defect.
The government’s court filing Friday was in response to a request for
a mental health evaluation from Melaku’s new lawyers, who said their
own psychiatrist had determined him to be schizophrenic at the time of
the shootings.
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good! too many people use that as the easy way out!
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