Case
Update:
The Murder of Jackie Anderson
On November
9, 1999, Mendocino County Judge Ron Brown declared David Anderson
mentally incompetent to stand trial for Jackie's murder. Judge
Brown handed down his ruling despite testimony that David Anderson
had bragged about killing Jackie (saying she "deserved it"),
and had told other jail inmates he would get a light sentence
"doped up" in a mental institution because he'd fooled the court
system into believing he was insane.
In yet another
travesty of justice in this case so rife with law enforcement
disdain and incompetence, Judge Brown ruled David Anderson wasn't
competent to understand courtroom proceedings. Judge Brown ordered
Anderson to the criminal psychiatric facility at Atasacadero
to be evaluated, "restored," then returned to stand trial for
Jackie's murder.
Anderson
was competent, however, to follow through with an organized
plan to kill Jackie that included conning a friend into driving
him to a store to buy bullets, retrieving his gun from the house
of another friend, and from there going to Jackie's house where
he shot her twice in the head, then held sheriff's deputies
at bay for some seven hours.
In late
2000, Anderson was found fit and returned to Mendocino County
to stand trial. For trial dates stay tuned to our website's
"Breaking News."