Defense Fails to Strike Prosecution Doctor's Testimony and Report
Report showed Georgetown murder suspect Albrecht Muth is competent to stand trial.
Despite efforts by the public defender to discredit him as an expert witness and have his report stricken from the record, Dr. Mitchell Hugonnet testimony and report — which say Georgetown murder suspect Albercht Muth is competent to stand trial — were permitted to remain in evidence Wednesday as Albrecht Muth's competency hearing continued. In his report released in August 2012, Hugonnet was the first medical expert to assert Muth is competent to stand trial for the murder of his wife, Viola Drath. Drath was found murdered in her Q Street NW home in August of 2011. Hugonnet wrote in his report Muth deliberately minimized his capabilities in intelligence tests and feigned being delusional. Get daily and breaking news email updates from …
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