Leavenworth Woman Found Competent for Trial
Associated Press - Mon 10:18 AM 12/31/2012
A judge has ruled that a northeast Kansas woman accused of leaving her baby alone in an alley is competent to stand trial.
An attorney for 28-year-old Elizabeth A. Michaud of Leavenworth argued earlier this year that Michaud was not competent to stand trial.
Michaud is charged with aggravated endangering a child after she allegedly left her son alone May 3 in a Leavenworth alley. Prosecutors believe she was under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time.
On Friday, a Leavenworth County judge found Michaud was competent to stand trial after receiving a report on a recent evaluation she was given.
The Leavenworth Times reports a pretrial conference was scheduled for Jan. 25.
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Aurora.
Wednesday 2 January 2013 09:06 Report this comment
Seems more and more of this is occurring and we keep putting them in prison as we should but the bill for housing these people keeps getting higher and higher.