TULSA, Okla. (AP) - The attorney for an Illinois
man accused in a failed plot to firebomb dozens of northeast Oklahoma
churches wants a federal judge to order a mental evaluation of his
client before going to trial.
The request filed in Tulsa federal court this week
suggests 24-year-old Gregory Arthur Weiler II of Elk Grove Village,
Ill., has been hospitalized numerous times over the past five years for
various mental health issues.
The request comes a week after Weiler was
transferred from state custody in Miami, Okla., to federal custody in
the northern district of Oklahoma because of the nature of his alleged
crimes.
A previous evaluation ordered while Weiler was in state custody found him mentally fit to stand trial.
The petition states that federal prosecutors don't object to the second test.
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