No decision yet for hotel murder defense
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April 10, 2011, Sunday
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A LAWYER for a Portuguese model charged with castrating and killing a TV journalist said on Friday that he hoped to decide within three weeks whether to pursue a psychiatric defense in the bloody attack in a Times Square hotel room.
A psychiatrist is due to evaluate Renato Seabra next week for his defense, attorney David Touger said after a brief court session.
Seabra, wearing a gray suit his mother had brought to him in a psychiatric hospital jail ward, said nothing as an interpreter helped him follow the session in Manhattan state court.
"For a man charged with murder in the second degree, who's never been in jail or in trouble in his life, I'd say he's doing OK," Touger said afterward. "But that's under the circumstances."
Seabra, a 21-year-old former contestant on a Portuguese talent-search show, has pleaded not guilty to murder in Carlos Castro's Jan. 7 death.
Castro, a 65-year-old Portuguese TV personality and writer, was found dead, naked and bloodied in a room they were sharing.
Seabra later told police he had choked Castro, stabbed him with a corkscrew in his face and groin, rammed a computer monitor into his head and stomped on his face after an argument, according to a court document.
Friends said the two were a couple, but Seabra's mother has said they weren't.
Seabra remains held without bail in a hospital. If convicted of murder, he could face up to life in prison.
A psychiatrist is due to evaluate Renato Seabra next week for his defense, attorney David Touger said after a brief court session.
Seabra, wearing a gray suit his mother had brought to him in a psychiatric hospital jail ward, said nothing as an interpreter helped him follow the session in Manhattan state court.
"For a man charged with murder in the second degree, who's never been in jail or in trouble in his life, I'd say he's doing OK," Touger said afterward. "But that's under the circumstances."
Seabra, a 21-year-old former contestant on a Portuguese talent-search show, has pleaded not guilty to murder in Carlos Castro's Jan. 7 death.
Castro, a 65-year-old Portuguese TV personality and writer, was found dead, naked and bloodied in a room they were sharing.
Seabra later told police he had choked Castro, stabbed him with a corkscrew in his face and groin, rammed a computer monitor into his head and stomped on his face after an argument, according to a court document.
Friends said the two were a couple, but Seabra's mother has said they weren't.
Seabra remains held without bail in a hospital. If convicted of murder, he could face up to life in prison.
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