Wednesday, May 30, 2007
YOUNGSTOWN — Two suspects in recent murders in the city have been declared incompetent to stand trial.
They will go to a center where they’ll undergo mental health treatment for a year with the goal of restoring them to competency.
Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court today sent James DiCioccio and David Klamer Jr. to the North Coast Behavioral Health Care Center’s Cleveland campus after they were found incompetent by a psychologist with the Forensic Psychiatric Center of Northeast Ohio, who evaluated them.
Their treating doctor will report to the court in six months on their progress, said Timothy Franken, chief trial lawyer in the county prosecutor’s office. If they aren’t restored to competency after one year, the county probate court will decide their placement, he added.
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