Two Doctors Testify at Murder Defendant’s Mental Observation Hearing

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Two doctors testified during a murder defendant’s mental observation hearing on May 14.

Alisa Randall, 31, is charged with second-degree murder while armed for allegedly stabbing 59-year-old Ronald Jones in an apartment on the 1300 block of Euclid Street, NW on July 15, 2019. Randall said Jones attacked her. She also said Jones sexually assaulted her daughter.

Two psychiatric doctor’s testified at Randall’s hearing, however, specifics as to what they said were not specified in court documents.

Randall has been held at Saint Elizabeth’s for more than a year without substantial progress.

The mental observation hearing was held at Fowler’s request in order to come to a competency resolution.

Closing arguments for the hearing are due on May 21.

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