KTRK, TX
Attorneys for 24-year-old Fredy Giovanni Garcia-Tobar, of Guatemala, were concerned their client might be mentally retarded.
A psychiatrist testified by telephone during a court hearing Tuesday that Garcia-Tobar appeared to be mentally deficient in a jailhouse interview.
But psychiatrist Seth Silverman decided Garcia-Tobar was competent after hearing two tapes of jailhouse telephone conversations in which Garcia-Tobar had "cogent, logical and coherent" conversations with his wife and a friend.
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