LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — A judge has ordered a competency exam for the man accused of maintaining a meth lab and damaging a building at Michigan State University.
During a probable cause conference on Friday, an attorney for Xin Tong, 31, requested that the court pause proceedings while awaiting a competency exam. After receiving no objections from the prosecutor, Judge Molly Hennessey Greenwalt with the East Lansing 54-B District Court granted the request.
The next hearing has been scheduled for Sept. 11.
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Tong’s attorney, Zhu Shen, said that during their conversations, Tong had difficulty understanding what Shen was saying and speaking. He also frequently brought up an irrelevant “research project,” the attorney said…