"Forsake Those Robes and Kneel in the Dust"
SALT LAKE CITY -- The man accused of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart from her bedroom in 2002 and holding her for nine months was again declared unfit to stand trial Monday after screaming at a judge to "forsake those robes and kneel in the dust."
A hearing to review Brian David Mitchell's mental competency was quickly ended after his loud stream of outbursts and discussion of a report by his doctor that he was not participating in therapy.
"Repent ye, repent ye. Forsake your idolatry," said Mitchell, whose hands were cuffed to a chain around his waist. Smart's family did not attend the hearing. "How dare you sit in those filthy robes, those robes of false priesthood," he told Third District Judge Judith Atherton. "Forsake those robes and kneel in the dust."
Mitchell is charged with aggravated kidnapping, sexual assault, aggravated burglary, and conspiracy to commit aggravated kidnapping.
Details here from the AP via the Seattle Press-Intelligencer.
Comments
sounds like Mitchell would have been right at home in a 15th century Inquisition trial. I'm gonn have to remind that next time I have to pay my parking tickets.
Posted by: God bless the robes | December 19, 2006 4:46 PM
Mitchell needs to be castrated and thrown in prison where he can get all that arrogance and willful self-delusionary garbage beaten out of him. He is a nothing but a moronic child rapist who uses God as an excuse to be a monster.
Posted by: Lacee LeClercq | December 31, 2006 9:29 AM