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Prosecutors Want Arizona Shooting Suspect to be Evaluated in Springfield

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Defense attorneys for Jared Lee Loughner, meanwhile, want assurances that a court-ordered mental competency evaluation doesn't expand into a review of their client's sanity. They argue that the exam should be done by an outside expert, not a federal Bureau of Prisons employee.
The lawyers also want the judge who ordered the examination not to order Loughner moved from a federal prison in Tucson, as federal prosecutors are suggesting. The attorneys refer to Loughner as their "seriously ill client."
Prosecutors, in a filing Wednesday, suggested that Loughner should be sent to the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield for the evaluation. They argued that the facility has the staffing and expertise to conduct the exam, has facilities to test for neurological or other problems and the ability to monitor him day and night to see if he might be faking.

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