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On Tuesday, Judge Robert Peeler agreed to pay Dr. Kara Marciani up to $2,500 to examine Robb and render an opinion within 30 days.
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“She’ll be meeting with Mercedes this week to start on her work,” Robb’s lawyer, Andrea Ostrowski, said during a hearing Tuesday in Warren County Common Pleas Court.
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Ostrowski sought a second opinion after the first examiner hired by the court found Robb competent to stand trial and decided she failed to meet the standards allowing her to enter a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.
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Peeler did not rule on Tuesday on Robb’s request for a furlough for her mother to take her to see her rheumatologist.
She remains in the Warren County Jail on $500,000 bond.
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