Lawrence Hecker will face court on kidnapping and rape charges in September pending a final competency ruling
after strangling him unconscious in 1975, has dementia – but it says nothing about Hecker’s competency to stand trial.and still no definitive determination on Hecker’s competency, his trial on rape and kidnapping charges has been set for 24 September.
Williams said he planned to try the case himself in September. But without a final determination on his competency to assist in his own defense, Willard said: “If he’s competent we’ll have trial on September 24.”“This is as close as we’ve gotten to holding him accountable when I’m going to do my dead level best to make sure that we can,” Williams said.
It is too late under Louisiana law to file child molestation charges from the 1980s and earlier, but there is no statute of limitations on aggravated rape or kidnapping. In Livaudais’s case, he claimed Hecker held him against his will in West Feliciana and East Baton Rouge parishes, but the DAs there did not feel they could bring kidnapping charges.
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