SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The attorney for accused Davis serial stabber Carlos Reales Dominguez questioned whether his client was mentally sound enough to proceed with his case, forcing a Yolo County judge to suspend criminal proceedings.
Doctors will now begin their psychiatric evaluation of the 21-year-old, who is being held on murder and attempted murder charges with special circumstances in the killings of two Davis men, including a UC Davis student weeks from graduation, and the critical wounding of a homeless woman in her encampment.
Yolo Superior Court Judge Samuel McAdam told attorneys to return to his Woodland courtroom June 20 for a competency hearing. to review the doctors’ findings.