LOS ANGELES (AP) — A decide remained undecided Friday on the remedy and placement plan for a person charged with stalking Jennifer Aniston and ramming his automotive into the entrance gate of her dwelling.
Jimmy Wayne Carwyle, a 48-year-old from Mississippi, has pleaded not responsible to felony stalking and vandalism. However in Might, Choose Maria Cavalluzzi discovered him not competent to face trial after evaluations from two consultants. At Friday’s listening to in a Los Angeles courtroom devoted to psychological well being instances, she heard arguments on Carwyle’s remedy and placement.
Aniston’s lawyer, Blair Berk, spoke on her behalf for the primary time, detailing two years of Carwyle’s harassment and stalking, together with varied failed makes an attempt to make bodily contact with the actor.
Cavalluzzi stated she leaned towards sending Carwyle to a psychological well being remedy different to imprisonment. She requested one other listening to, scheduled for later this month, to listen to from a psychological well being skilled earlier than making a ultimate determination.
Prosecutors and Aniston’s legal professional could have an opportunity to weigh in, Cavalluzzi stated.
The decide acknowledged Aniston’s “very actual” concern, however she stated she will’t ignore the opinions of psychological well being professionals who’ve evaluated Carwyle and deemed him not a hazard to society. The choice remedy possibility affords community-based housing, remedy and assist providers versus incarceration.
Harassment began 2 years in the past, prosecutors say
Prosecutors alleged Carwyle had been harassing the “Friends” star with a flood of voicemail, e mail and social media messages for 2 years earlier than driving his Chrysler PT Cruiser by way of the gate of her dwelling within the rich Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles on Might 5, “only feet away from where she was,” Berk stated.
Carwyle had a said and “persistent delusion” to impregnate Aniston with three youngsters, Berk stated, and “there is simply no way to prevent him from carrying out his delusion if he walks out.”
The prosecution expressed concern that if Carwyle had been supplied the remedy in Los Angeles, nothing would cease him “from traveling those few miles to Ms. Aniston,” Berk stated.
Berk and William Donovan, the deputy district legal professional, argued Carwyle was a gift hazard to Aniston and people round her. Berk stated he tried to enter her property twice, however was turned away.
Carwyle’s lawyer, Robert Krauss, stated his shopper qualifies for different remedy, arguing that he hasn’t been convicted of violent crimes. Granting him different remedy, “is not like giving him a break or showing him leniency,” Krauss stated. “Its just one thing and one thing only — and that is absolute, pure faithfulness of the law.”
Krauss additionally referenced a report from the probation division, which beneficial Carwyle be granted probation and 90 days in jail if convicted, a lot lower than the over three years most sentence for his two prices. Carwyle has been in jail since Might and, if convicted, might be set free with time served.
Suspect says he will not stroll away from remedy
Carwyle was current on the listening to and addressed questions from Cavalluzzi, saying he “wasn’t right in the head,” when requested in regards to the textual content messages he despatched Aniston. He stated he has been taking remedy, which is preserving him targeted, and admitted his wrongdoing.
When Cavalluzzi requested how she could be positive he gained’t stroll away from the remedy program — a said concern from the prosecution — Carwyle responded, “You have my word.”
Berk stated Carwyle “traveled thousands of miles over a year ago “after sending thousands of messages” that reflected “his delusions and intentions to not just make contact with Ms. Aniston, but to commit criminal wrongs against her, sexual violence against her.” She added that Carwyle harassed in his messaging that he “would be unabated by doctors or others or FBI intervening.”
Donovan argued {that a} state hospital is a “much safer, much more effective place for him to go,” and can supply the remedy Carwyle wants to handle his delusions. The prosecution additionally argued there’s no proof that Carwyle’s delusions towards Aniston have stopped, even with remedy.
Carwyle has been beneath involuntary remedy for the previous few months. Krauss stated that Carwyle’s actions towards Aniston had been “just the product of psychosis from someone who is unmedicated.” The government must keep its “promise of treatment rather than punishment and of rehabilitation rather than incarceration,” he stated.
The listening to was postponed a number of occasions in latest months as Carwyle at first objected to the incompetence discovering and requested for an opinion, and either side sought extra time to look at the case.
Carwyle stays jailed, however he’s beneath a decide’s order to not contact or get close to Aniston.
Authorities stated Aniston was dwelling on the time of the gate crash, however he didn’t come into contact together with her. A safety guard stopped him in her driveway till police arrived. Nobody was injured.
Carwyle additionally faces an aggravating circumstance of the specter of nice bodily hurt.
Aniston turned one of many largest stars in tv in her 10 years on NBC’s “Friends.” She gained an Emmy Award for greatest lead actress in a comedy for the position, and he or she has been nominated for 9 extra. She presently stars in “The Morning Show” on Apple TV+.
