WOBURN, Mass. (AP) - A lawyer for a Boston man charged with killing his grandmother in her Weston home says his client is not criminally responsible for the slaying.
Attorney Richard Bailey said at a hearing in Middlesex Superior Court on Wednesday that 22-year-old James Maguire Clark has several mental health issues and should not be held criminally responsible for the March 15 slaying of 80-year-old Eleanor Clark.
Prosecutors want to have a psychologist examine Clark.
Authorities say Clark, a British citizen who has spent most of his life in the U.S., beat and stabbed his grandmother during a fight. He has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
The slaying was the first homicide in the affluent Boston suburb in 33 years.
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