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| Judge orders trial to determine Vacaville inmate’s competency |
| By dailyrepublic.com- Jess Sullivan |
| Published: 04/26/2018 |
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FAIRFIELD — A prisoner who is serving a life sentence and faces a murder charge for the 2015 death of his cellmate at California State Prison, Solano, was in court briefly Thursday. Jesus Perez, 49, was flanked by prison guards, a Spanish-language interpreter and his court-appointed attorney, Barry Newman, who is disputing a diagnosis by prison psychiatrists that Perez, declared mentally incompetent in August 2017, is now mentally fit and able to stand trial on a murder charge. Judge John B. Ellis ordered a trial be conducted in June and July in which he will decide whether Newman is correct that his client is still mentally incompetent or if prison doctors are correct. Perez was in prison for a 2009 first-degree murder conviction out of Los Angeles County. Read More. |
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