Supreme Court will not hear arguments in case against admitted Planned Parenthood shooter
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - The US Supreme Court will not hear arguments in the case against admitted Planned Parenthood shooter, Robert Dear.
That decision was released Monday morning, Feb. 24.
In 2022, a federal judge determined that Dear could be forcibly medicated after years of rulings determining that he was incompetent to stand trial.
Prosecutors say in 2015, Dear opened fire at the Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs, killing three people and injuring nine others. Dear has admitted to the shooting since his first court appearances in 2015. The case has been stalled and Dear has been housed at the state hospital in Pueblo since.
Dear's lawyers tried to take the case to the highest court in the land in an attempt to prevent him from being forcibly medicated. Now that the Supreme Court has declined to hear the case, a trial could move forward.
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