GUILTY/NOT GUILTY - KY - Logan Tipton, 6, stabbed to death, Versailles, 7 Dec 2015

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Ky. correctional psyciatrist says man accused of fatally stabbing 6-yr-old competent to stand trial - September 27th

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/local-news/ky-correctional-psyciatrist-says-man-accused-of-fatally-stabbing-6-yr-old-competent-to-stand-trial

An Indianapolis man charged with killing a 6-year-old Kentucky boy earlier this year is competent to stand trial, according to a correctional center psychiatrist.

ABC 36 in Lexington reports that Dr. Amy Trivette, with the Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center testified on Tuesday that Exantus was competent to stand trial.

Exantus' attorney Bridgette Hofler told ABC 36 that she believes Exantus had some type of psychotic break and that medical professionals could not explain why. She also said she was not confident in the results of the competency hearing.

The competency hearing is set to continue on November 2.

Defense asks for more psych data on man in killing of Versailles boy - August

Judge to decide if man accused of killing Versailles 6-year-old is competent to stand trial - June

Tipton family speaks out after Exantus appears in court - June

 

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Ronald Exantus Competent To Stand Trial In Murder Of 6-Year-Old

http://www.lex18.com/story/33593400/ronald-exantus-competent-to-stand-trial-in-murder-of-6-year-old

The man accused in the stabbing death of a 6-year-old Versailles boy has been found competent to stand trial on the day after what would have been his alleged victim's seventh birthday

Wednesday morning, a judge ruled that Exantus would be competent to stand trial in the murder. A trial date has not yet been set.

 

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Vigil Wednesday To Mark One Year Since Stabbing Death Of Little Boy

http://www.lex18.com/story/33919991/vigil-wednesday-to-mark-one-year-since-stabbing-death-of-little-boy

Wednesday marks a somber anniversary for the city of Versailles. It's been one year since 6-year-old Logan Tipton was stabbed to death as he slept in his Woodford County home.

Friends and family of the Tipton family will gather at KCTCS in Versailles for a candlelight vigil and walk in Logan's honor.

 

[emmiesmom47]

According to that article, he has no criminal record and is a dialysis RN (his FB also says he is an RN). What the heck happened with this guy??

Why would someone do that?!


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Attorney To Ask For Change Of Venue In Exantus Trial

http://www.lex18.com/story/34181258/attorney-to-ask-for-change-of-venue-in-exanuts-trial

In a status hearing held Tuesday, the attorney for Ronald Exantus told a judge that the defense still has some issues with discovery and that they do have plans to file for a change of venue before the trial.

The next court date will be held in April.

 

[Rayemonde]

a doctor with Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center testified that Exantus heard voices and exhibited odd behaviors before the murder. Prior to Tipton's murder, Exantus had contemplated suicide but told the doctor that he had no means to do it.

http://www.lex18.com/story/33593400/ronald-exantus-competent-to-stand-trial-in-murder-of-6-year-old

 

[Rayemonde]

A man accused of killing a 6-year-old Woodford County boy during a home invasion said he had a psychotic break and doesn't remember stabbing the boy...

his attorney said he's heavily medicated now.

http://www.wkyt.com/content/news/At...-remember-killing-Woodford-boy-378112131.html

 

[0101ABA]

Accused killer of 6-year-old Kentucky boy to undergo another mental evaluation

The accused killer of a 6-year-old boy has received one mental evaluation but will undergo another before trial.

Ronald Exantus, 33, was deemed competent to assist in his defense. But when public defenders said they intend to introduce mental-health evidence at trial, prosecutors responded that they want Exantus to be evaluated.

Wednesday’s brief proceeding offered no explanation why the Indianapolis divorced father of three allegedly drove to Kentucky, broke into a Versailles house and stabbed Logan James Dean Tipton to death with a knife in December 2015. Prosecutors have given notice that they will seek the death penalty.

 

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Ronald Exantus Faces New Judge In Case

http://www.lex18.com/story/35549045/ronald-exantus-faces-new-judge-in-case

The Commonwealth filed a motion to do their own competency examination on Exantus Tuesday.

The judge, Phil Patton, said he would sign off on that.

The defense filed a motion for continuance of the trial, wanting the current August date moved back.

The judge did not grant that request but didn’t deny it, saying they could come back to it.

 

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Should Ronald Exantus murder trial be moved? Judge to decide soon

http://www.kentucky.com/news/local/crime/article156378874.html

Pretrial publicity and racially charged comments on social media and websites should require moving the trial of accused killer Ronald Exantus from Woodford County to an adjoining county, preferrably Fayette, a defense attorney argued Thursday.

But a prosecutor argued that Exantus, accused of murder in the December 2015 death of 6-year-old Logan James Dean Tipton, is capable of receiving a fair trial in Woodford County.

Special Judge Phillip Patton said he will decide within a week whether to grant a defense request to move the trial, which is scheduled to start Aug. 11 in Versailles.

 

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Trial of man accused of killing 6-year-old boy moved to Lexington

http://www.kentucky.com/news/local/crime/article156638069.html

A judge on Friday ordered the trial of accused killer Ronald Exantus to be moved from Woodford County to neighboring Fayette County.

Special Judge Phil Patton issued the order a day after a public defender sought to move the trial because of pretrial publicity and racist comments posted on websites and social media, while a prosecutor argued that Exantus could receive a fair trial in Woodford County.

 

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http://www.wkyt.com/content/news/Trial-for-man-accused-of-murdering-six-year-old-Versailles-boy-delayed-again-453648583.html

A judge once again had to delay the trial for a man accused of breaking into a Versailles home and murdering a six-year-old boy.

Ronald Exantus was scheduled to go to trial on January 2, 2018. On Friday, a judge pushed back that date to February 26.

 

[always reading]

http://www.wkyt.com/content/news/Trial-for-man-accused-of-murdering-six-year-old-Versailles-boy-delayed-again-453648583.html

This is one of the strangest cases I've ever heard.

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Man Accused Of Killing Woodford County Child Back In Court

http://www.lex18.com/story/37349982/man-accused-of-killing-woodford-county-child-back-in-court

A total of ten motions were filed in court Thursday, much of them dealing with jury selection and things allowed in the courtroom at trial, which is slated to begin Feb. 26 in Lexington.

First the defense asked for additional opportunities to reject potential jurors. No immediate ruling was made.

 

[always reading]

Does anyone know if they did a tox screen on the perp?

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6-year-old was killed with a knife. Trial to decide if mental illness or drugs to blame.

http://www.kentucky.com/news/local/crime/article201766834.html

Was the accused killer of a 6-year-old Versailles boy insane or was his erratic behavior self-induced because he took synthetic drugs?

That’s what a Fayette County jury must decide in the trial of Ronald Exantus, 34, who could face execution if he is found guilty in the death of Logan James Dean Tipton.

Jury selection in the four-week trial is scheduled to start Monday in Lexington. The trial was moved from Versailles to Fayette County because of pretrial publicity.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Jury selection underway.....

http://www.wkyt.com/content/news/Ju...of-murdering-six-year-old-Versailles-boy.html

 

[JerseyGirl]

Jury selection is expected to wrap up and the trial is expected to begin Monday for Ronald Exantus.

http://www.lex18.com/story/37645655/exantus-trial-expected-to-begin-today

 

[JerseyGirl]

Prosecutors showed jurors Tuesday a recording of Versailles police interviewing Ronald Exantus, an Indianapolis man accused of killing Logan Tipton with a butcher knife.

In the interview, Exantus appears calm and initially coherent but frequently rambles. His comments grow more bizarre as the interview progresses to talk of why he stopped in Versailles and attacked the child.

Exantus, who worked as a dialysis nurse, says in the recording that he was thinking about the TV shows "Grey's Anatomy" and "Scandal." The Tiptons' home is on the corner of Gray and Douglas.

http://www.lex18.com/story/37658687...n-stabbing-death-cited-tv-shows-after-slaying

 

[JerseyGirl]

Ronald Exantus, the accused killer of Logan Tipton, 6, is back in court Tuesday as his murder case enters its third day.

http://www.wkyt.com/content/news/Ronald-Exantus-trial-continues-with-more-testimony-476645353.html