how long does it take to evaluate a pedophile and determine he's not nuts?
this is absurd
Like OTHER SHRINKS are EVER going to make a finding that goes against whatever it is that he wants... The interview probably went like this:
Doctors: "So.... what do you want us to write?"
ayres: "Just delay it for a bit. I'll let you know next month."
Dont be offended-I had to laugh.
I think if we paged back some we will see we predicted that there would be a stand off which would require a tie breaker.
lucky guy that he gets to sit back and enjoy another month.
Lets take a moment to review then-It appears that Ayres defense is going to compel a mental incompetency claim on his behalf.
So will he take it? Does he get the idea that he does not deserve to be in society and he is going to be locked up in a ward? I cant even imagine this pompous man walking the halls with his fellow mental incompetents. What if some of them are victims of his? I mean, they are going to have to check that out, right?
According to one of the court personnel who talked to us today (I assume a court clerk) who was familiar with this case, what normally happens after a finding of INCOMPETENT, is that they let him go home for awhile (he's out on bail) until they have ANOTHER evaluation to figure out where the best (most cushy?) place for him to be treated is, and then they commit him until he's "better" at which point, they can then refile for a trial if they're still interested in prosecuting.
If he's found COMPETENT, then they either set a trial date, or they set a date to set a trial date.
The game is to wait for his victims to pull out, either because of stress, poor health from stress over all of the delays, or to be unavailable due to suicide. (Morbid, perhaps, but I DO think that enters into the thought process.)
Personally, I think that the prosecutor wants to win, but the DA and the County do NOT. There will be quite a bit of egg on their face if he's found guilty, because they've had opportunities to stop him in the past, and they haven't. They'll also have egg on their face if they lose. I think they'd like for him to quietly go away.
An interesting note:
Way back in October of 2009, McDougall had several of ayres' medical records sealed. It now appears that those were psychiatric evaluations of some sort, and the doctors who are evaluating ayres' competency now have requested these reports.
SO: to me, it looks like McDougall was planning the incompetence gambit way back then, and then he waited until mid March (just before the scheduled start of re-trial) to drop the bomb. (And now the reports that ayres probably paid for in the first place are being sent to the competency evaluators to "help them" with their process.)
Here's the full detail: http://williamayreswatch.blogspot.com/2010/04/ayres-competency-hearing-yet-more.html
A bit more information on why they need an extension:
http://www.mercurynews.com/search/ci_14980009?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.com
And note:
Also in the article, quotes from prosecutor McKowan prepare us for the inevitable:
"If ayres is found incompetent[...] that could mean a stay at a state mental hospital, or either inpatient or outpatient treatment locally." (Judge's discretion)
Which means that probably ayres will just go home to his lovely wife, and she can drive him around to his weekly chat with a therapist, and to pick up boys wherever they go to pick them up now.
This event has to have created a situation where Ayres cannot participate in his defense, cannot make rational decisions regarding his defense and cannot make head nor tails of what is going on around him.
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Here is my fear. That after a ruling of competency is completed and Ayres is found to be competent, then his attorney take a stab at Competency to Testify. And if there is some kind of disability that will prevent him from testifying on his own behalf......
This whole thing is getting absolutely ludicrous. I am so sick of all the "defense" angles in these cases while the victims are left to suffer. Where are the loopholes for the victims? There never are any.
I am feeling really down about so-called justice today.