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Saturday October 17, 2009
Brian Mitchell and Wanda BarzeeElizabeth Smart:
Wanda Barzee A state court judge said Friday the Utah State Hospital has determined that the woman charged in the 2002 kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart is competent for trial.

The hospital’s finding — provided in a report three days ago to Judge Judith Atherton — was announced in Salt Lake City’s 3rd District Court. It could mean the case of Wanda Eileen Barzee is headed toward trial, although Atherton first must rule Barzee competent.
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Friday October 2, 2009
Brian Mitchell and Wanda BarzeeElizabeth Smart:
Elizabeth Smart The American student Elizabeth Smart has, for the first time, described her nine-month kidnap ordeal after being snatched by a stranger from her bedroom in Salt Lake City seven years ago.

Asked by a prosecutor to describe Brian David Mitchell, the self-described prophet accused of holding her captive for nine months, Ms Smart replied: “Evil, wicked, manipulative, stinky, slimy, greedy, selfish, not spiritual, not religious, not close to God.â€
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Tuesday September 29, 2009
Brian Mitchell and Wanda BarzeeElizabeth Smart:
Elizabeth Smart A federal judge has ruled that Elizabeth Smart can testify in the upcoming mental competency hearing for her accused kidnapper.

In a ruling issued Monday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Dale A. Kimball denied a defense motion to bar Smart from testifying in the case of Brian David Mitchell.
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Monday September 28, 2009
Brian Mitchell and Wanda BarzeeElizabeth Smart:
Wanda Barzee In letters written to her mother, the woman charged in the 2002 kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart has sought forgiveness for any pain she has caused and says she expects to spend the rest of her life in prison.

Meanwhile her estranged husband will soon face another competency hearing.
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Monday October 27, 2008
Brian Mitchell and Wanda Barzee:
Brian David Mitchell Once court resumed, Alba entered a “not guilty” plea on behalf of Mitchell, gave prosecutors a week to gather the evidence from the state competency hearing so it could be shared with the judge and defense, and set another hearing for Nov. 12.

At that time, Alba is expected to rule on the government’s motion for a competency evaluation for Mitchell at a federal facility.
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Saturday October 11, 2008
Brian Mitchell and Wanda Barzee:
Brian David Mitchell Brian David Mitchell, accused in the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart, does not meet the criteria for forced medication, a 3rd District judge ruled Thursday.

Judge Judith Atherton wrote in a 44-page decision that the likelihood that psychotropic medications would help Mitchell is too low to warrant forcing him to take them.

U.S. District Attorney Brett Tolman subsequently announced Friday that his office has started the process to prosecute Mitchell in federal court.
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Thursday March 13, 2008
Brian Mitchell and Wanda BarzeeElizabeth Smart:
Wand Barzee, 62, and her estranged husband, Brian David Mitchell, face criminal charges of aggravated kidnapping and aggravated sexual assault for allegedly abducting Elizabeth Smart, then 14, from her home in Salt Lake City. [video]
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Monday December 17, 2007
Brian Mitchell and Wanda BarzeeElizabeth Smart:
Wanda Barzee, 62, has fought the forced administration of anti-psychotic drugs, saying through her attorneys the medication is against her religion.
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Thursday September 13, 2007
Brian Mitchell and Wanda Barzee:
Prosecutors called a Utah State Hospital psychiatrist to the stand to begin an expected three days of clinical expert testimony about whether the self-proclaimed prophet can be forcibly medicated to make him mentally competent to stand trial in the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart.
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Tuesday December 19, 2006
Brian Mitchell and Wanda BarzeeElizabeth Smart:
The man accused of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart from her bedroom in 2002 and holding her for nine months was again declared unfit to stand trial Monday after screaming at a judge to forsake those robes and kneel in the dust.
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Friday October 21, 2005
Brian Mitchell and Wanda Barzee:
Salt Lake County prosecutors on Monday asked a judge to consider the forced medication of accused Elizabeth Smart kidnapper Wanda Eileen Barzee.
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Wednesday July 27, 2005
Brian Mitchell and Wanda Barzee:
Judge orders man confined for mental treatment
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Friday July 8, 2005
Brian Mitchell and Wanda Barzee:
After six days of hearings that began in February, the question of Brian David Mitchell's mental competency is far from black-and-white.
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Wednesday May 25, 2005
Brian Mitchell and Wanda Barzee:
SALT LAKE CITY, (AP) -- A street preacher charged with kidnapping teenager Elizabeth Smart was removed from court Tuesday after shouting Biblical admonitions, the fifth time he has been removed from hearings for such a disruption.
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Saturday March 12, 2005
Brian Mitchell and Wanda Barzee:
Prognoses differ: The defense still says he is delusional; a prosecution witness says his writings show he isn't
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Brian Mitchell and Wanda Barzee:
The man charged with kidnapping teenager Elizabeth Smart was kicked out of his mental competency trial Friday after he began singing a religious hymn, the fourth time he has been removed from hearings for singing.
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Thursday February 17, 2005
Brian Mitchell and Wanda Barzee:
SALT LAKE CITY -- A mental health expert on Wednesday described the homeless street preacher accused of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart as a one-time functioning member of society who "fell off a cliff" and determined he was a living prophet destined to take young girls as plural wives.
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Saturday December 4, 2004
Brian Mitchell and Wanda Barzee:
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The man accused of abducting Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart will get a new round of competency evaluations after he broke out into a Christmas hymn in court Friday.
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Tuesday November 9, 2004
Brian Mitchell and Wanda Barzee:
November 8, 2004 -- Lawyers for the Utah pedophile "prophet" accused of kidnapping and sexually abusing Elizabeth Smart in 2002 want jurors sequestered during his trial — and Bibles banned from their hotel rooms.
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Thursday September 2, 2004
Brian Mitchell and Wanda Barzee:
Accused Elizabeth Smart kidnapper Brian David Mitchell stood at a podium in 3rd District Court Thursday and repeated the words, "Not guilty," six times as Judge Judith Atherton read the charges against him.
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Wednesday September 1, 2004
Brian Mitchell and Wanda Barzee:
SALT LAKE CITY -- A judge Tuesday found a homeless man competent to stand trial in the kidnapping of teenager Elizabeth Smart, after the man's lawyers decided not to contest the issue.
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Wednesday August 11, 2004
Brian Mitchell and Wanda Barzee:
Woman Charged in Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping Ruled Incompetent to Be Tried, Ordered Back to Hospital
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Tuesday June 29, 2004
Brian Mitchell and Wanda Barzee:
Defense doesn't believe she'll ever be capable
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Monday June 28, 2004
Brian Mitchell and Wanda Barzee:
A 90-day evaluation report on whether Elizabeth Smart kidnapping suspect Wanda Barzee may ever be considered competent to stand trial was considered briefly in court Monday, but a judge decided she would hear from a state psychiatrist in August before making any further determination.
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Wednesday April 2, 2003
Brian Mitchell and Wanda Barzee:
The Salt Lake Tribune, Mar. 30, 2003
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