June 08, 2010, 11:22AM
Ryan Garza | The Flint JournalBrandon Hayes talks with his attorney James Piazza.
FLINT,
Michigan — An opinion
from the Michigan Center for Forensic Psychiatry may have found Brandon
Hayes to be competent to stand trial, but his attorney says that's not
so.
"I don't think he's competent in talking to him," said
Saginaw attorney James Piazza, who intends to request
an independent evaluation during a hearing scheduled for June 21.
Hayes,
24, is accused of killing Dominick
Calhoun, 4, who was found severely beaten April 11 in his Argentine
Township apartment and died the next day after he was removed from life
support.
Hayes is accused of beating Dominick
about the head, kicking him in the groin and poking him in the eyes
repeatedly for days after the
boy wet himself and soiled the couch. He was charged with eight
felonies including torture, first-degree child abuse and first-degree
premeditated murder. See more at http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2010/06/defense_attorney_brand...
