Monday, September 17, 2012

Surprise! Competency Hearing for Molester ayres Delayed

Well, I wasn't really that surprised to hear that the competency hearing in front of Judge Grandsaert was delayed. According to The San Mateo County Times (pdf),

The Shyster attorney representing child molester william hamilton ayres will still be in trial defending another client (as we expected might be the case) , and so won't be able to make the previously scheduled October 1, 2012 competency hearing date. 

william hamilton ayres molested many young boys while alleging to provide psychiatric care and evaluations for the San Mateo County juvenile court system. He has spent the last year malingering: deceiving authorities about being incompetent, according to reports from the Napa County State Hospital, so that he can avoid further attempts at criminal prosecution for his heinous crimes.

According to the Times, ayres is still locked up with no bail until competency has been resolved.

The new hearing date is now set for October 26, 2012 at 9am PST. Very close to the original date that the defense shyster was targeting.

5 comments:

  1. Paging Judge John Cleland!

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  2. Has this other kiddie molester's case been delayed as often, and for as long, as Chester the Molester's case?

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    1. Not sure... in fact, while the San Mateo County Times calls McDougall's other case a "molestation" case, the only thing I can find that matches the timeframe discussed in the hearings is This child abuse case. So I'm going to edit my post to simply refer to "another" case.

      McDougall does seem to be the local go-to guy if you want to claim that your mind is failing though... seems that his other big client Youshock also had competency issues.

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  3. So is Ayres still locked up while waiting for the competency hearing?

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    1. Yes. As mentioned in the article, the Times reported that the child molester remains held with no bail until the competency issue is resolved.

      As I reported in earlier posts, the judge's understanding of the law is that AFTER a person being held in a competency matter has been certified competent and approved by a judge, then bail decisions can be made, and criminal proceedings can be re-instated. Since the defense has contested the certification by Napa, the judge has issued no approval. The competency hearing will allow the judge to either declare ayres competent or state that he is not competent, at which point bail/further treatment/release decisions will be made.

      Further, the law gives the authorities 10 days to take custody after a patient is certified competent by the State Facility, so ayres is not allowed to remain at Napa state for this duration. he is in the county jail waiting for his attorney to finish other matters.

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