The CIA made him do it?

SCOIDblog tells us about this interesting case, we taxpayers will have to pay for again, unless he (Defendant) is evaluated as incompetent to stand trial, because the court did not order a psychiatric evaluation before he chose to represent himself. (Does not really matter, we still pay.) The guy robbed a bank. The defendant was smart enough to represent himself pro se and con the judge – was he smart enough to create the mental instability to soften his crime? State v. Hawkins 

Afterthought -  01/04/2010:  Here’s another question, what judge can possibly determine if someone needs a psych eval? They are not doctors. Hawkins might even argue, it’s against his civil rights to be evaluated. At this rate he will outsmart the psychologist/psychiatrist and demand his own professional of choice and the state will have to pay for it. Just throw the ’thief’ in jail and be done with it. Being a ‘thief’ can be proved.

Excerpts:

When interviewed by Oregon police, Hawkins stated that he had been a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative, had knowledge of transportation of weapons to Canada, had been involved in a South American operation with a National Security Agency (NSA) advisor and, at some point, had cut a transponder out of his earlobe that had been placed there by 3″someone.”1 Hawkins also claimed to be a sophisticated criminal and freely admitted that he had committed the December 16, 2005, Boise bank robbery.

 

In rebuttal, the state called Detective Rosenbraugh. She testified that the first thing Hawkins told her shortly after his arrest in Oregon was about being a CIA operative and having participated in transportation of weapons to Canada and involvement in a South American operation with National Security Advisor Negroponte. He told her about cutting a transponder out of his body. She said Hawkins told her about registering his van in the name of a corporation so that if they were stopped for a traffic violation he could avoid detection of his identity, and he discussed the types of radio frequencies used by the Boise police as it related to robbery work. He admitted he had committed the December 2005, robbery in Boise, and that he had shot people before but had not killed anyone. In another interview with the detective a few days later, Hawkins said that he was concerned that not everything he had said before was true and that a lot of his memories came to him at night.

This is really good stuff folks! This is hardly ‘dry’ reading.

Hawkins made claims regarding his need to subpoena certain named individuals who were businessmen in Boise who he alleged had sent persons to threaten him and made him commit the robberies. Hawkins also informed the court, in camera, of his intent to use duress as a defense, as well as the identity of a CIA operative who forced him to wear a bomb vest and threatened to kill him if he did not rob the banks.