Mass. Police Shooting Suspect Held Without Bail
(17 Jul 2018) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP Clients Only POOL - AP CLIENTS ONLY Quincy - 17 July 2018 +++AUDIO AS INCOMING+++ 1. Wide zoom of courtroom filled with police officers Emanuel Lopes enters in wheelchair 2. Medium wide zoom of Emanuel Lopes 3. Close of Lopes as clerk reads charges (UPSOUND) " Clerk: On all six counts, pleas of not guilty pleas will be entered.) Judge: Do you understand those charges Mr. Lopes? Lopes: "Yes I do." 4. Close of police officer zoom, wide police officers rise as court session begins 5. Wide of courtroom 6. Close of defense lawyer 7. Medium of court psychologist 8. Court psychologist speaking on defendants competency, (UPSOUND) "He indicated that he disagreed with the charges but he understood them. He understood that they're serious. He suggested that he could receive two life sentences. He gave a reasonable account of plea bargaining and he gave reasonable accounts of the role of the district attorney. he couldn't name his attorney by name initially but he was familiar with his attorney from today and perhaps yesterday. He said he trusted his attorney. He would strongly consider his attorneys advise. In short, I didn't find any substantial reasons to doubt his competency." 9. Medium of courtroom 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Greg Connor, Norfolk County Assistant District Attorney: "The defendants severity of his crimes, your honor calls for him to be held without bail. In addition he is a significant flight risk. Where he is facing two life sentences as apparently he has acknowledged in the competency evaluation. In addition your honor, these facts alone indicate flight for when after he shoots officer Chesna he still flees from the area. So with this your honor, commonwealth would ask to have the defend held without bail on this docket." 11. Close defense lawyer assistant district attorney 12. Close defense lawyer (UPSOUND) "I've been unable to speak with him in any coherent fashion regarding anything about the case. He has a long and detailed history of psychiatric disorders. He has a history of reporting, at least one, time hallucinations. Right now a case like this where the tragedy is so great that I would ask that we be very careful as SJC has often instructed and ensure that the person that I'm having to deal with and the courts having to deal with and the prosecution is prosecuting is indeed competent." 13. Close of Emanuel Lopes STORYLINE: The man suspected of killing a Massachusetts police officer, as well as an innocent bystander, is being held without bail. Twenty-year-old Emanuel Lopes has been arraigned Tuesday for two counts of murder in front of a gallery packed with police officers. He pleaded not guilty to multiple charges, including the two counts of first-degree murder. Norfolk Assistant District Attorney Greg Connor described in court how Lopes struck Weymouth Officer Michael Chesna with a large rock Sunday morning, grabbed the officer's service weapon and shot him 10 times. Chesna was investigating reports of an erratic driver and car crash. Authorities say Lopes then shot 77-year-old widow Vera Adams in the chest through the sliding glass door of her home. Lopes was later shot in the leg by police. A court psychologist testified Lopes disagreed with the homicide charges against him, but understood them. He was declared competent for arraignment. Lopes' lawyer argues he is not mentally competent to stand trial, and asked that his client undergo a mental health evaluation at Bridgewater State Hospital due to a history of psychiatric admissions. The judge denied that request. Clients are reminded: Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
