Efforts to perform a mental competency evaluation on the 26-year-old man charged with killing his mother in Mashpee last week were again unsuccessful Wednesday.
Falmouth District Court Judge Edward Lynch ordered that Andrew Baily remain held without bail pending further evaluation at Bridgewater State Hospital.
Police arrested Baily on Dec. 18 in connection with the murder of his mother, Cheryl Crowell, 60, at an apartment on Wampanoag Drive in Mashpee.
Baily was arraigned Monday on charges of murder, strangulation or suffocation with serious bodily injury, assault and battery on a disabled person or a person over 60 with serious bodily injury and assault and battery.
A court clinician testified in a status update at Falmouth District Court Wednesday, December 23, that murder defendant Andrew M. Baily, 26, should be further evaluated at Bridgewater State Hospital.
On Monday, Mr. Baily pleaded not guilty to murdering his mother in her Mashpee home on Friday last week.
Judge Edward F.X. Lynch ruled that Mr. Baily would be held without bail pending a mental heath evaluation during the arraignment in Falmouth on Monday.
Mr. Baily is charged with domestic assault and battery, strangulation or suffocation with serious bodily injury, assault and battery on a 60-plus-year-old person with serious injury, and murder in connection with the death of his mother, Cheryl R. Crowell, 60, of Mashpee.
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Published December 21, 2020
A man is being held without bail after appearing in a Massachusetts court Monday on a murder charge in the death of his mother last week, prosecutors said.
Andrew Baily, 26, was arraigned in Falmouth District Court on the murder charge as well as charges of strangulation, assault and battery and, separately, assault and battery on a person over the age of 60, according to the Cape and Islands District Attorney.