The judge found a man accused of in 2024, beating the death of a man at Palm Beach Gardens Golfo, not mentally unsuitable for court.
During the hearing on 17 September. In Palm Bych County Prison, District Judge Donald Hafele decided that the junior boucher was incompetent to continue the court after Brian Hiltebei, 65.
Hafele ordered a boucher to enter the mental health facility under the supervision of the Florida Children and Family Department.
Boucher, 37, is accused of killing Hiltebeitel in 2024. November 25 During the fascination with the Sandhill Crane Golf Club at the Northlake Boulevard. A poster resident is confronted with first -degree murder.
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Police said Boucher attacked Hiltebeiteel using Hiltebeitel’s own golf clubs and disarmed him into the pond. Palmian beach garden police officers found a nearby body of Hiltebeite and had a connection with a partially dressed weave when he tried to run.
Dina Lauro, Hiltebeitel’s girlfriend, January. Palm Beach Post said Hiltebeittel is an avid golf player who has attended a course several times every week to train. She said Hiltebeitel and his alleged attacker had no connection to each other.
Palm Beach Gardens Police Chief Dominick Pape told reporters at a November press conference that Boucher did not seem to have the goal of being a golf course.
Investigators said the attack occurred about an hour after the Boucher’s family said he had disappeared to the Palm Bych County Sheriff’s office. The police did not specify the attack motive.
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Police say the junior boucher attacked Brian Hiltebeitel in 2024. November Sandhill Crane at the Palm Bych Garden, FLA. Boucher then allegedly drowned Hiltebeite into a nearby pond and killed it.
Based on June With the help of public defense counsel James Snowden, Boucher suffers from a mental illness that prevents him from helping his defense. Snowden said the court Boucher refused to meet with his lawyers or with mental health professionals who had been maintained by the defense team.
Snowden wrote that defense lawyers could not identify the source of Boucher’s disease due to his refusal to meet the doctors.
“Boucher does not value him with accusation or suspicion,” he wrote. “Boucher does not understand the action that he is accused of the government. He cannot witness properly. His mental illness does not allow him to help his lawyer defend.”
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County Judge Caroline Shepherd satisfied the offer to the court to appoint mental health professionals to evaluate the boucher and referred the case to the District Court’s mental health department.
Hafele considered that Boucher was incompetent to continue after reviewing written reports, which were submitted by two clinical psychologists in July and August. He planned 2026. April At the time, the DCF will submit a renewal of Boucher’s competence.
Snowden wrote that Boucher had previously been considered an incompetent unrelated case and was later restored as competence.
Julius Whigham II is a Palm Beach Post Criminal Justice and Society Security Reporter. You can contact @Juliuswhigham; Help support our work: Subscribe today.
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