KRCTV
December 22, 2013
A Butte County judge has found the man accused of beating his pregnant girlfriend to death mentally competent to stand trial.
Investigators say Olabaku Jones killed his long-time girlfriend Abby Tucker in June in their Oroville home.
The prosecution called three psychologists who interviewed Jones within the past two months.
It was the results of a psychological test that convinced the judge Thursday morning to send him to trial.
There are three standards that an inmate must meet in order to be mentally competent to go to trial: the defendant must understand the charges he or she is being accused of, they must have rational manner of behavior with their attorney and finally they must understand the repercussions of the charges.
The defense argued that Jones was not mentally competent going to trial citing testimony from psychologists that Jones hears voices and hallucinates, but a SIMS test convinced the judge otherwise.