A judge ruled Friday that a Muslim terrorist charged with gunning down 10 people at a Colorado supermarket last year is still mentally incompetent to stand trial, further delaying court proceedings in the case. But the judge also said that assessment could change soon. (Yeah, sure)
NY Post (h/t Marvin W) Experts at the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo have said there is a substantial probability that Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 22, can be restored to competency within the “reasonable future” and remain competent by taking medications, Judge Ingrid Bakke said during a brief hearing. It is a prognosis she first mentioned in a March 11 scheduling order.
The prosecution of Alyssa has been on hold since December, when Bakke first ruled that he was mentally incompetent — unable to understand legal proceedings and work with his lawyers to defend himself. Bakke’s ruling came nearly a month after Boulder, the home of the University of Colorado, marked the first anniversary of the attack that killed workers, customers and a police officer who rushed inside the store.
Few details have been released about Alissa’s condition. Reports on his evaluations are not available to the public, but a court filing discussing one of the evaluations last year said he had been provisionally diagnosed with an unspecified mental health condition that limits his ability to “meaningfully converse with others.”
Competency is a different legal issue than a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, which involves whether someone’s mental health prevented them from understanding right from wrong at the time a crime was committed. After the hearing, District Attorney Michael Dougherty said the average time to restore someone to competency is six months. He declined to speculate on when Alissa, who as been at the state hospital for four months, may be considered competent.
Investigators have not released any information about why they believe Alissa launched the attack or why he may have targeted the supermarket. He lived in the nearby suburb of Arvada, where authorities say he passed a background check to legally buy the Ruger AR-556 pistol he allegedly used six days before the shooting.
Robert Olds, the uncle of one of the 10 people killed, front-end manager Rikki Olds, said Alissa has more rights than the victims.
Boulder police Officer Eric Talley, a 51-year-old father of seven, was shot and killed while rushing into the store with an initial team of police officers. In addition to Rikki Olds, Denny Stong, Neven Stanisic, Tralona Bartkowiak, Teri Leiker, Suzanne Fountain, Kevin Mahoney, Lynn Murray and Jody Waters were killed inside and outside the supermarket.
vtology says
Bring back the death penalty in Colorado and let’s get this show on the road. “Capital punishment was abolished in Colorado in 2020. It was legal from 1974 until 2020 prior to it being abolished.” (–Wikipedia) If he’s convicted in a fair trial, it would be foolish not to use the death penalty. Anything else is a waste of perfectly good hamburgers on a POS for the next 60 years or so.
BLR says
I suspect there is a fat profit off of the court system for these spook chasers called psychiatrist who if they were paid to find a sane muslim would be in the well fare line to survive , no excuse for their action
Ted says
Scum is competent. HE could say the words i want my lawyer. He had a talk with Allah as he was doing the deed. He thinks he will get off. What he neds to know is even if he clains not to understand anything, how did he have a converstaion with the shrink?. This clown is a faker and in the end fakers have their lights put out
Sheikh_Anvakh says
Time to rule that “liberal” “judges” such as Alyssa Bakke and leftist lawyers are mentally incompetent to sit on the bench or present cases, as they also clearly do not understand the difference between right and wrong, truth and lies, proving againg that actual “justice” is anything but and that politics and expediency are the name of the game.
Sheikh_Anvakh says
Let’s get this right… He was competent enough to know the rules of the road and what is right and wrong, to get his driving licence. He was competent enough to qualify to buy a weapon knowing exactly what weapons do, both right and wrong. He was competent enough to plan where he was going and drive there knowing that he was going to kill people, ostensibly Jews, knowing too that in the US at least, that was wrong. Yet this idiot “liberal”, “judge”, ruled that he was mentally incompetent to stand trial.
You can bet your house that if Muslims had been killed, every stop would’ve been pulled out to prosecute the bastard, with speeches in both houses, politicians abasing themselves, riots and denunciations by the usual suspects.
The West is finished if we don’t stop sucking the prophet’s d*ck.
Hartmut says
Well adhering to such satanic cult could as such be mental derangement for sure.
What I always wonder is whether mentally deranged people flock to Islam or whether Islam causes mental derangement. It about what’s first, the hen or the egg….
Az gal says
Exactly. It’s also that Islam is evil. Evil can disguise itself as mental derangement.
Andrew+Blackadder says
Let me guess here… Is there something in the quran that makes these people insane, or am I just an old islamowhatsit?.
BareNakedIslam says
Islam is a mental disorder.
Linda Rivera says
COLORADO’S Message to the world’s Muslim terrorist killer savages and every Muslim terrorist organization on earth:
Come to Colorado. Come to America! We’ve got your back. We’re on your side!
Slaughter non Muslims. We’ll pretend you have a mental problem. We’ll make sure you walk free or spend very little time in jail!
Come to America! What are you waiting for?
We know what your Quran War book teaches!
Quran (9:5) – “So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captive and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush….
David says
That’s why everyone wants to come here. Muslims,Mexicans, Chinese, Iranians! Free phone, health care, education, low housing everything we should probably get we give to them.
Cleavis Nowell says
Colorado like all blue states is terminally handicapped by being unable to understand that Islam is an ideology unwilling to take prisoners.