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A Westminster woman indicted in the March 2023 beating death of her husband has been found incompetent to stand trial. On Tuesday, Gail Joy D’Anthony, 76, appeared in Carroll County Circuit Court for a second competency hearing in front of Judge Fred Hecker. The judge ordered D’Anthony to be sent to a hospital for further evaluation, based on the findings of a Maryland Department of Health . ....
The lethal injection of an Oklahoma man scheduled to be executed next month has been paused for 100 days so that a hearing can be held to determine if he's mentally competent enough to be executed. ....
A judge has ordered a competency hearing for Gail Joy D’Anthony, 76, of Westminster, whose trial for the March murder of her husband is set to begin Jan. 8. During a hearing Wednesday, Carroll County Circuit Judge Brian DeLeonardo scheduled the competency hearing for Jan. 2, to allow time for D’Anthony to be evaluated by a mental health expert. DeLeonardo issued his decision after D’Anthony’s . ....
Joseph Hewson, defendant in a string of 47 different felony and misdemeanor cases over the past several years, was found competent to stand trial on all pending charges after a psychological report finding of competency by a Bennington judge. ....