'I can't believe he isn't a danger to the whole town just out walking around.' 9News
The last thing the family of two sisters slain in a tiny South Carolina town had heard about the man who confessed to killing them was that he was headed to a mental hospital in 2012 to be treated for schizophrenia so he could later be tried for murder.Then, a few months ago, friends started to call a son of one of the women with the news that they had seen Joseph Jermaine Brand around Kingstree, family attorney Lori Murray said.
The records could not be found online either, although there were some court records still available in a file where the arrest warrants were kept. Prosecutors have promised to reinstate the charges and said they will ask a grand jury to indict Brand again at the end of the month, Murray said.Solicitor Chip Finney didn't return a phone message or email from the AP.
But the records show that his mental problems kept him from being able to assist his attorney, prompting a judge to order a psychiatric evaluation. One of the two psychiatrists who examined him corrected him, saying court records listed him as being 33. "And a half!" Brand yelled back, according to the report on his mental state.
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