LOS ANGELES – A decide declared Thursday {that a} man is mentally incompetent to face trial on fees of stalking Jennifer Aniston and crashing his automobile by way of her entrance gate.
The transfer in a Los Angeles County psychological well being courtroom got here after a second psychiatrist examined the defendant, Jimmy Wayne Carwyle, and reached the identical conclusion as the primary: that his psychological well being wouldn’t enable him to reply to felony fees of vandalism and stalking of the “Pals” star.
“The courtroom finds the defendant shouldn’t be at the moment competent to face trial,” Decide Maria Cavalluzzi mentioned. “Prison proceedings will stay suspended.”
Carwyle, 48, of Mississippi, has pleaded not responsible. He appeared behind glass in a custody space of the courtroom and didn’t converse. He appeared vastly completely different than his earlier two courtroom hearings. His scraggly grey hair and beard had been shorn, and he was carrying brilliant yellow county jail clothes after beforehand showing with naked shoulders, wrapped in a blanket-like smock meant for suicide prevention.
Carwyle had argued that he’s competent, and exercised his proper to a second opinion after an preliminary incompetence discovering final week.
“It is not the result my shopper would have most well-liked,” Deputy Public Defender Robert Krauss instructed the decide.
A conviction on the fees, together with an aggravating circumstance of the specter of nice bodily hurt, may carry as much as three years in jail for Carwyle. The incompetence discovering has no set finish date however it’s non permanent, and the usual felony course of may resume later.
Cavalluzzi ordered extra complete psychological evaluations to assist decide the place and the way he’ll be held, and what his remedy will probably be. The decide will get a report on the outcomes at a June 26 listening to, the place Aniston or her lawyer will probably be allowed to share her perspective on the case.
Aniston’s lawyer, Blair Berk, was within the courtroom observing Thursday, however didn’t converse. Berk and the deputy district lawyer dealing with the case declined remark outdoors courtroom.
Prosecutors allege Carwyle had been harassing Aniston with a flood of voicemail, e-mail and social media messages for 2 years earlier than driving his Chrysler PT Cruiser by way of the gate of her dwelling within the rich Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles on Could 5, inflicting main harm. A safety guard stopped him in her driveway till police arrived. Authorities mentioned Aniston was home on the time, however didn’t come into contact, and nobody was injured.
Aniston turned considered one of tv’s largest stars in her 10 years on NBC’s “Pals,” from 1994 till 2004. She won an Emmy Award for greatest lead actress in a comedy for the function, and he or she has been nominated for 9 extra. She at the moment stars in “The Morning Present” on Apple TV+.
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