To: The California State House, The California State Senate, and Governor Gavin Newsom

Right To Stand Trial

Allow my son to stand trial for his crime of emailing a woman who had a restraining order against him.

Why is this important?

My son Zach's right to stand trial for his crime was unfairly stripped from him when his attorney requested a second psychiatric evaluation, I believe because his attorney did not want to go to trial since he accepted the case for a flat fee of $2500.00. The first psychiatric evaluation one month prior declared him competent to stand trial. Thus when the second opinion declared him incompetent he was sentenced to time and forced medication at a state mental hospital.