A mentally ill man has been found incompetent to stand trial in the stabbing of an aide for Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul, and is unlikely to be prosecuted.
Glynn Neal, 44, received 10 examinations by psychiatrists hired by defense attorneys and prosecutors, D.C. Superior Court Judge Todd E. Edelman said Wednesday, and he will probably never be mentally competent enough to understand the nature of a criminal trial and assist in his defense, The Washington Post reported. He believed he had already been found guilty and sentenced.
Edelman read from various reports that Neal suffered from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. He had been found incompetent to stand trial before.
“There are no prospects that Mr. Neal will return to competency in the foreseeable future,” Edelman said.
The judge ordered that the criminal case against Neal be put on hold, and for him to remain at the D.C.-run psychiatric facility St. Elizabeths Hospital, where he has been held since his arrest in 2023. If treatment specialists and a judge determine that Neal has become mentally competent to stand trial in the future, then prosecutors could revive the criminal case.
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