| By Big Radio News Staff |
Dayveon Lathrop, the man accused in the brutal stabbing death of his sister, could have a wait before court officials know if he’s mentally competent for trial.
A court-appointed doctor says in a filing in Rock County court that a court-ordered mental fitness evaluation for the 20-year-old Lathrop was inconclusive.
Lathrop’s attorneys agreed Thursday to the doctor’s request for a second, inpatient evaluation for the town of Fulton man.
But Lathrop’s attorneys say the state psychiatric hospital where he’d be sent, Mendota Health Institute, has a patient logjam that means Lathrop could have wait be admitted.
They told Rock County Judge Derrick Grubb that Mendota now has a 130-patient waiting list.
Grubb OK’d the doctor’s request, and asked for a status hearing in May. Grubb points out that in certain criminal cases, he’s seen the state expedite court-ordered admission of patients.
Lathrop’s accused of stabbing and killing his sister March 9 and hiding her body in a storage tote in his family’s town of Fulton home.
Lathrop appeared in court Thursday in shackles, dressed in an orange, Rock County Jail inmate’s uniform.
