Competency of Suspect Questioned In Milpitas/San Jose Murders

The South Bay woman who is accused of killing her two close friends in late August in separate incidents in Milpitas and San Jose may not be mentally competent to stand trial, her lawyer says.The legal proceedings in the August 28 double-murder case have been paused as 32-year-old Anila Baby will now be evaluated by psychiatrists in Santa Clara County to determine if she is fit to participate in her own defense. Based on my in-person conversations with my client, I have doubts as to my client s competency to stand trial, said defense attorney Shawn George, per Bay Area News Group. After my client is evaluated for competency, we will come back to court to address this issue based on the evaluators reports. Baby is accused of brutally strangling and/or bludgeoning 39-year-old Ann Mary Mathew in her home in San Jose and, hours later, mowing down 35-year-old Anjana Hari with her car in the parking lot of the Milpitas apartment complex where they both lived. Investigators say that after