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Here's part of the Democrat-Gazette article from this morning explaining the docs that I posted yesterday from the clerk's office.
Judge’s reversal
sets mental exam
JOHN LYNCH
ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
The mental evaluation
for the Jacksonville man accused
of killing a real estate
agent is back on after the
presiding judge reversed his
earlier ruling that canceled
the examination, reporting
that both the prosecution
and defense want Arron
Michael Lewis’ mental
health to be reviewed by
state doctors.
Pulaski County Circuit
Judge Herb Wright’s
Thursday ruling will send
the 33-year-old defendant
to the State Hospital for an
assessment of his sanity.
Lewis’ lawyer asked for
the exam at his first circuit
court appearance but told
Wright that Lewis didn’t
want it.
The attorney, Jim Hensley
of Conway, subsequently
filed a motion to cancel
the exam, which Wright
now says he mistakenly
granted last week.
A State Hospital mental
evaluation in criminal cases,
colloquially known as an
Act 3, will require doctors
to try to determine whether
Lewis is competent to participate
in his defense and
whether he understood the
Judge’s reversal
sets mental exam
JOHN LYNCH
ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
The mental evaluation
for the Jacksonville man accused
of killing a real estate
agent is back on after the
presiding judge reversed his
earlier ruling that canceled
the examination, reporting
that both the prosecution
and defense want Arron
Michael Lewis’ mental
health to be reviewed by
state doctors.
Pulaski County Circuit
Judge Herb Wright’s
Thursday ruling will send
the 33-year-old defendant
to the State Hospital for an
assessment of his sanity.
Lewis’ lawyer asked for
the exam at his first circuit
court appearance but told
Wright that Lewis didn’t
want it.
The attorney, Jim Hensley
of Conway, subsequently
filed a motion to cancel
the exam, which Wright
now says he mistakenly
granted last week.
A State Hospital mental
evaluation in criminal cases,
colloquially known as an
Act 3, will require doctors
to try to determine whether
Lewis is competent to participate
in his defense and
whether he understood the