Evaluation sought for man accused in church bomb plot
BY Associated Press
Thursday, February 14, 2013
The attorney for an Illinois man accused in a failed plot to firebomb dozens of northeast Oklahoma churches wants a federal judge to order a mental evaluation of his client before going to trial.
The request filed in Tulsa federal court this week suggests 24-year-old Gregory Arthur Weiler II of Elk Grove Village, Ill., has been hospitalized numerous times over the past five years for various mental health issues.
The request comes a week after Weiler was transferred from state custody in Miami, Okla., to federal custody in the northern district of Oklahoma because of the nature of his alleged crimes.
A previous evaluation ordered while Weiler was in state custody found him mentally fit to stand trial.
The petition states that federal prosecutors don't object to the second test.
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