Judge orders man who stabbed woman to be held in jail

The judge who found a man incompetent and released him from jail has ordered the man remain in custody after he reportedly brutally stabbed a woman.

District Judge Stephen Wayne released George Schwerin from jail on July 31. Six days later, Schwerin was found in a woman’s motel room covered in blood. She had been stabbed more than 20 times.

Schwerin, 34, was charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon for the attack on Glenice Thompson, 69, who is fighting for her life at UNM Hospital in Albuquerque…

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