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MIDDLETOWN, Conn.—Prosecutors say they have hired an expert to assess the mental health of a man charged with killing a Wesleyan University student at the Connecticut campus in 2009.
State’s Attorney Timothy Liston says the forensic psychiatrist should have a diagnosis of Stephen Morgan in time for the next pretrial hearing on March 15.
Morgan has pleaded not guilty to murder in the May 2009 shooting death of 21-year-old Johanna Justin-Jinich of Timnath, Colo., in a campus bookstore cafe.
His lawyers say he was mentally ill at the time of the killing, and they’ve indicated they’re planning a defense of mental disease or defect.
Morgan did not appear at Tuesday’s hearing at Middletown Superior Court.
