Man charged with stalking Jennifer Aniston discovered mentally incompetent to face trial

A pass judgement on declared on Thursday {that a} guy is mentally incompetent to face trial on fees of stalking Jennifer Aniston and crashing his automobile thru her entrance gate.

The transfer in a Los Angeles County psychological well being court docket got here after a 2nd psychiatrist tested the defendant, Jimmy Wayne Carwyle, and reached the similar conclusion as the primary: that his psychological well being would no longer permit him to reply to to legal fees of vandalism and stalking of the Friends famous person.

“The court finds the defendant is not currently competent to stand trial,” pass judgement on Maria Cavalluzzi stated. “Criminal proceedings will remain suspended.”

Carwyle, 48, of Mississippi, has pleaded no longer accountable. He seemed in the back of glass in a custody house of the court docket and didn’t talk. He seemed hugely other than his earlier two court docket hearings. His scraggly grey hair and beard were shorn, and he was once dressed in brilliant yellow county prison clothes after prior to now showing with naked shoulders, wrapped in a blanket-like smock supposed for suicide prevention.

Carwyle had argued that he’s competent and exercised his proper to a 2nd opinion after an preliminary incompetence discovering closing week.

“It’s not the outcome my client would have preferred,” deputy public defender Robert Krauss informed the pass judgement on.

A conviction at the fees, at the side of an traumatic circumstance of the specter of nice physically hurt, may carry as much as 3 years in jail for Carwyle. The incompetence discovering has no set finish date however it’s transient and the usual felony procedure may resume later.

Cavalluzzi ordered extra complete psychological reviews to lend a hand resolve the place and the way he’s going to be held and what his remedy shall be. The pass judgement on gets a record at the effects at a listening to on 26 June, the place Aniston or her lawyer shall be allowed to percentage her viewpoint at the case.

Aniston’s attorney, Blair Berk, was once within the court docket watching on Thursday however didn’t talk. Berk and the deputy district lawyer dealing with the case declined to remark out of doors court docket.

Prosecutors allege Carwyle were harassing Aniston with a flood of voicemail, e mail and social media messages for 2 years earlier than riding his Chrysler PT Cruiser throughout the gate of her house within the rich Bel Air group of Los Angeles on 5 May, inflicting primary harm. A safety guard stopped him in her driveway till police arrived. Authorities stated Aniston was once house on the time however didn’t come into touch and nobody was once injured.

Aniston was considered one of tv’s largest stars in her 10 years on NBC’s Friends, from 1994 till 2004. She received an Emmy award for easiest lead actress in a comedy for the position and he or she has been nominated for 9 extra. She lately stars in The Morning Show on Apple TV+.