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Judge may rule today on man's legal sanity
by Outspoken on Wed Dec 05, 2007 6:03 am
Judge may rule today on man's legal sanity
By ALAN CROWELL
Staff Writer Morning Sentinel
SKOWHEGAN -- Superior Court Justice Joseph Jabar could decide today whether a Palmyra man was legally insane when he allegedly shot his girlfriend's 13-year-old son to death a little more than a year ago.
Todd Curry, 40, is accused of shooting Anthony Tucker multiple times in the head with an assault-type rifle as Tucker was leaving the Warren Hill Road home that Curry shared with Tucker's mother April Cooley and her two other children, including Curry's infant daughter.
The Nov. 28, 2006, shooting came on a chaotic morning during which Curry's behavior became increasingly erratic and violent, causing first Cooley, then her children to flee. Anthony, a boy described as protective of his siblings, was the last to leave.
Curry is charged with murder.
In July, he pleaded not guilty by reason of serious mental disease or defect. For most of the past year, he has been at Riverview Psychiatric Center in Augusta, where he has undergone a series of evaluations.
Janet Mills, Curry's attorney, said today's hearing will focus largely on the results of those examinations.
http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/4531881.html
By ALAN CROWELL
Staff Writer Morning Sentinel
SKOWHEGAN -- Superior Court Justice Joseph Jabar could decide today whether a Palmyra man was legally insane when he allegedly shot his girlfriend's 13-year-old son to death a little more than a year ago.
Todd Curry, 40, is accused of shooting Anthony Tucker multiple times in the head with an assault-type rifle as Tucker was leaving the Warren Hill Road home that Curry shared with Tucker's mother April Cooley and her two other children, including Curry's infant daughter.
The Nov. 28, 2006, shooting came on a chaotic morning during which Curry's behavior became increasingly erratic and violent, causing first Cooley, then her children to flee. Anthony, a boy described as protective of his siblings, was the last to leave.
Curry is charged with murder.
In July, he pleaded not guilty by reason of serious mental disease or defect. For most of the past year, he has been at Riverview Psychiatric Center in Augusta, where he has undergone a series of evaluations.
Janet Mills, Curry's attorney, said today's hearing will focus largely on the results of those examinations.
http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/4531881.html
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