Ex-Klansman Fit for Bomb Trial, Doctor Says
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A former Ku Klux Klansman who claims to suffer from dementia is mentally competent to stand trial in one of the worst attacks of the U.S. civil rights era: the murders of four young black girls in the 1963 bombing of a Birmingham church, a psychologist testified.
“It was my final opinion that any dementia he may suffer, which would be mild, would not impede his ability to help in his defense,” psychologist Kathleen Ronan said during a competency hearing for Bobby Frank Cherry.
Cherry, 72, is charged with four counts of murder for the Sept. 15, 1963, bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.
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