Uh, what did the examiner find?

So yeah, once again, thanks for having us back on here.

Do appreciate it.

And we can't go into everything that the evaluation found, because obviously a lot of that's confidential.

There's, uh, certain specific medical issues that Mr. Sider suffers from.

But as, you know, generally speaking, when a person's found incompetent and not restorable, it basically means that at this point they don't understand the proceedings that are going on, and there's no way to restore them to the point where they could potentially understand what's going on right now.

So, um, it's, it's probably been obvious to most people who've been following this and who watched Mr. Sider Sr. at his initial appearance.

Sure.

I mean, did he even understand what that meant?

I mean, he obviously understood a person greeting him.

But again, as I noted in my motion, He definitely had some confusion about the process, about what was going on.

He had an inability to discuss with any sort of sophistication the legal process, what everyone's roles were, which again, as I've said here and elsewhere, competency is a bedrock.

It's a bedrock precondition to be able to move forward in any criminal case.

And if you don't have that, you just simply can't.

I'm going to circle back around to what you already asked also.

He even mentioned that you filed this motion and he seemed to acknowledge and recognize that maybe there are some potential issues here.

It's the bar at a grand jury.

It's a low bar, but to say that I haven't seen no bills or that you see charges at the complaint stage as felonious assault, for instance, then by the time you get to a grand jury, maybe it's only aggravated assault, which is two full degrees less.

You're right.

It is a low bar, but to say it's not a bar at all would not be correct.

So that's the first thing.

Second thing is...

The state has provided what can only be described as a modicum of the evidence.

I know the other children were treated and released from area hospitals.