Overview

• U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn ruled Robert Dear incompetent to stand trial and unlikely to be restored, adopting an August evaluator’s uncontested findings.
• The court granted a joint motion for Dear’s civil commitment at the federal medical center in Springfield, Missouri, where he will remain under ongoing monitoring.
• Involuntary antipsychotic treatment began in April after the Supreme Court declined to review the medication order, but evaluators reported no restoration of competency.
• Federal prosecutors declined to dismiss the case and instead sought future status conferences as treatment and commitment proceedings continue.
• Victims who asked to address the court were denied the opportunity to speak, as the case remains stalled a decade after three people were killed and nine wounded.