Yolo County prosecutors argued Carlos Reales Dominguez’s mental state during the brutal knife attacks that killed a Davis man and a graduating UC Davis student and nearly ended the life of an unhoused woman in April and May 2023 was brought on by heavy, prolonged use of highly potent cannabis.
Prosecutors were rejected by a judge Thursday in their bid to have their office’s own doctors evaluate Dominguez’s mental state — even as they levied the new theory behind the deadly Davis stabbings that paralyzed the city more than two years ago.
Yolo Superior Court Judge Samuel T. McAdam denied the District Attorney Office’s filing, calling it “untimely” months after jurors in June failed to reach a verdict in the killings and more than a year after medical experts at trial testified to the former UC Davis student’s diagnosed schizophrenia. A scheduled second murder trial is two months away, beginning Jan. 20…