Experts collide in hearing 30 -year -old skills with the history of dismissed sexual accusations

Salt Lake City-Despite the fact of having been accused of numerous sexual crimes against children over a decade, Jonathan Jareth Soberanis, 30, found that he was not competent to proceed in all, with the exception of a state case, and the accusations against him were rejected.

Once it was released, the police say that it continues to commit similar offenses and a model is repeated about it being charged, found incompetent, then released.

Which can be changed. Soberanis appeared in the federal court for jurisdiction hearings on Thursday and Friday under the charge of distribution and transport of sexual abuse materials on children, as a series of experts confessed if it is competent to be tried.

Various medical evaluators in the time interval in question have made formal and informal diagnoses, including neurodevelopment disorders, fetal alcohol spectrum syndrome, dissociative identity disorder, autism and serious childhood trauma.

On Thursday it seemed to be the first time that forensic psychologists concluded that Soberanis was competent, a hot request by an evaluator employed.

The Supreme Court, in 1960, established what is now called the Dusky standard, imposing the parties to have “a sufficient current ability to consult with his lawyer with a reasonable rational understanding – and if he has a rational understanding, as well as the procedures against him.”

On Friday, the clinical and forensic psychologist, Dr. Jolie Brams, a defense employee to evaluate Soberanis, said he has “serious concerns” on the man’s competence. He wore his dark hair in a cant from top in the morning, down, in a pony tail after lunch, dressed in gray and white stripes from Davis County.

Brams said that Soberanis was “practically unable to understand the complexities of the judicial system”, had a “childhood nature” and “understood that he has problems” only in a “very simplistic” way.

She said that past sexual and physical abuse, while the child encouraged the development of dissociative identity disorder. “His coping is to rely on these shattered parts of his identity,” she said, which leaves frequent and significant gaps in the short-term and working working memory. “Life is indeed a struggle for him.”

But the psychologists from the Federal Prison Bureau, ordered independently of the court to evaluate the question, found that he is competent, given that he is offered a number of accommodations for his mental disabilities, such as frequent breaks and repetitive explanations.

When asked if the accommodations would be enough to remedy the problem of skills, Brams was firm: “No, absolutely no.”

The taxes themselves claim that he has used more social profiles and applications, The Dark Web and Cryved Cloud Storage to host his illicit photos and videos, about which the Federal Office Office in prisons say it demonstrates a moderate level of executive operation.

His work history also supported this statement, they said, after an undercover officer confessed that he interacted with the man selling stones at a kiosk in a mall, finding that he was able to work efficiently in the store, to recite product information and to make changes for a big bill.

On Friday, Dr. Jessica Micono with the office confessed that he believes that Brams and others have mistaken the standards set by Dusky and allowed the emotions to inform the reports. She stood behind her junior report, Dr. Rebecca Johnson, although Brams confessed that she is concerned about “collecting cherries” from a “inexperienced evaluator”.

Hollan, which follows the federal case, considers the situation of Soberanis as an indicative of a problem at national level. In the judicial documents, he argues that at national level, 20% of the defendants are not considered competent, compared to 70% for Utah evaluators. “This is not a failure of the law, but of the evaluators who allow prejudice to the treatment to affect their determination of competence,” he wrote.

The defense and the prosecutor will submit briefs to the court in the following month, before arguing their positions on competence orally. American district judge David Barlow will then pronounce the problem of competence at hand, which, if favorable to criminal prosecution, can allow the reopening of previous accusations.

Soberanis’s history in court

In 2015, Soberanis was permanently forbidden from a leisure center in Utah County, exposing themselves to others in the locker room, the judicial documents show. He did not plead any competition for a number of lewdness in June 2014 and received 11 months of test.

He had “contact” with law enforcement in October 2015, September 2016 and December 2016, prosecutors wrote in a registration in the 2023 court.

In May 2018Witnesses say it was exposed to a child from South Towne Mall in Sandy. The child’s mother took pictures with Soberanis, before “pulling the phone out of her hand and pushing her down,” according to the initial police reservation statement. The photos were released in the local media, and several types have come to identify Soberanis, says the statement.

He was accused of a number of crimes for the alleged incident, he was considered to be competent in June 2019, issued from the Journey of Salt Lake County, and the accusations were rejected.

In December 2018, Soberanis dragged under a dressing stall in the same leisure center in Utah County, from which he was previously forbidden, to follow an 8 -year -old boy, before being exposed to the child, Loading documents support. After they were considered competent in June 2019, these accusations and accusations from another case were rejected.

In May 2021, the man entered a house and lied to the police about his identity, according to the accusations. The following month he was accused of reaching a 5-year-old boy at the same leisure center he was banned in 2015, say the judicial documents, exposing himself to the child who dragged under the door to escape. After he faced, he would have assaulted two officers.

The accusations in this case were rejected in July and August 2021, after being considered not competent.

He was put in the custody of the Department of Services for people with disabilities in August 2021 and had to be at a 24 -hour hour.

In January 2022However, Soberanis was accused of several voyeurism offenses after the police said it was taking a look at the neighbors’ bedrooms Wearing a coat, a mask and Beanie, says the police reservation statement. As a result of these charges“The law enforcement have discovered about 30 gigabyte (sexual abuse materials on children), consisting of thousands of images and videos”, on Soberanis devices, the judicial documents say.

Was found Not competent in November 2022 and the accusations were rejected in March 2023. Soberanis has been in federal arrest in the prison in Davis county since then.