Illegal Immigrant Killer Of Laken Riley Wins Unexpected Court Victory For Mental Evaluation

The illegal immigrant slayer convicted successful nan decease of Georgia assemblage student Laken Riley won a tribunal triumph Thursday erstwhile a judge ruled he should beryllium mentally evaluated aft his lawyer claimed past twelvemonth that he wasn't competent to guidelines trial.

Jose Ibarra was recovered blameworthy and sentenced to life successful situation without parole for nan decease of Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student. 

The judge who issued nan sentence, Judge Patrick Haggard, connected Thursday ordered that nan Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD) behaviour a intelligence information to find his competency to guidelines proceedings and assistance pinch post-conviction proceedings, meaning his entreaty case. 

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Laken Riley and her killer, Jose Ibarra, who is serving a life condemnation for her death. A judge has ordered that Ibarra acquisition a intelligence evaluation.  (Robin Rayne for Fox News Digital/ Instagram)

In June, Ibarra's attorneys said they judge their customer is "suffering from congenital deficiency which could render nan customer incapable of preparing a defense and opinionated trial," nan New York Post reported. 

They claimed that he "lacks nan intelligence capacity to understand nan quality and entity and proceedings and counsel believes that this was successful beingness astatine nan clip of nan discourtesy and astatine nan clip of nan trial."

"The intelligence competence of [Ibarra] has been called into question, and this tribunal has recovered it due for an information to beryllium conducted astatine nan nationalist expense," Haggard wrote successful his order. He ordered nan Georgia Department of Corrections to partner pinch DBHDD for nan "prompt evaluation" astatine a GDC installation aliases a hospital. 

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Laken Riley poses for a photograph posted to Facebook. Riley, a nursing student astatine nan University of Georgia, was recovered dormant adjacent a reservoir connected field connected Feb. 22, 2024.  (Laken Riley/Facebook)

In tribunal documents, charismatic Sheila Ross said location was nary grounds during his proceedings that suggested Ibarra wasn’t mentally competent. However, she didn’t reason Ibarra getting evaluated and near it up to Haggard to decide, nan Post reported. 

Ibarra, 27, an forbidden migrant from Venezuela, attacked and killed Riley arsenic she was jogging on trails adjacent Lake Herrick connected nan University of Georgia campus.

Prosecutors said Ibarra saw Riley moving on celebrated trails connected UGA's field conscionable aft 9 a.m. and attacked her, dragged her 64 feet into a wooded area and hit her caput pinch a stone repeatedly, sidesplitting her.

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The lawsuit attracted nationalist attraction because of Ibarra's forbidden status. He entered nan United States illegally during nan Biden management done El Paso, Texas, successful September 2022 and was released into nan U.S. via parole. 

He was arrested by nan New York Police Department successful August 2023 and was "charged pinch acting successful a mode to injure a kid little than 17 and a centrifugal conveyance licence violation" earlier making his measurement to Georgia.