Man accused of stealing WSP patrol SUV on Christmas deemed incompetent again, judge orders more treatment

The man accused of stealing a Washington State Patrol (WSP) vehicle on Christmas Day has again been found incompetent to stand trial.

A judge previously ruled him incompetent in January and has now ordered another 90 days of competency restoration for 24-year-old Alexander Smith.

“A lot of people hear that and think, ‘Does that mean that the criminal case is dismissed?’ No, it doesn’t,” Casey McNerthney, a spokesperson for the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, said in January. “It means that there’s a competency restoration period, and there can be up to three of those. And it can take several months, but that does not mean the criminal cases are dismissed.”…

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