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TORRINGTON TELEGRAM • FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2019 • A5 COMMUNITY

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BY TOM MILSTEADtmilstead@torringtontelegram.com

TORRINGTON – The defense team for Jamie Snyder, a Goshen County man charged with first de-gree murder, has filed a motion in the Eighth Judicial District Court asking Judge Patrick Korell allow the defendant to seek an indepen-dent mental evaluation to “deter-mine his ability to conform to the standards of the law at the time of the alleged offenses.”

The case has been stalled in the courts for nearly a year. Sny-der originally pleaded not guilty by reason of mental illness in the Eighth Judicial Circuit Court, which triggered a mental evalua-tion by the State of Wyoming Men-tal Hospital in Evansville. After the evaluation, former judge Ran-dal Arp ruled Snyder fit for trial, and the case was bound over to district court, which hears felony cases, in February 2019.

Snyder again pleaded not guilty

by reason of mental illness in the higher court, which triggered an-other round of mental evaluations.

On May 29, the defense was granted a stay in the proceeding for another round of mental evalu-ations. The deadline for the evalu-ation has been extended several times since it was ordered, and now Snyder’s team is seeking an outside opinion.

On Sept. 9, attorney Jonathon Foreman filed a motion for a sec-ond mental evaluation. According to court documents, the evalua-tion will be conducted by Dr. Max-imillian Wachtel, at the request of the defense.

There is no date set for when the court will deliver its decision as to whether Snyder is fit to stand trial.

The prosecution, led by Goshen County Attorney Eric Boyer, has not made a decision to pursue the death penalty if Snyder is found guilty. A death sentence hasn’t been carried out in Wyoming

since 1992, when Mark Hopkinson was put to death by lethal injec-tion after ordering the murders of four people. Currently, there is one inmate on death row in Wyoming.

Snyder is accused of fatally stab-bing Wade Erschabeck in May 2018.

Early in the proceedings last May, Snyder told law enforcement officials that he attacked the victim in self-defense and maintained that was the reason during his initial appearance before Arp.

According to the Affidavit of Prob-able Cause filed in the case by Sher-iff Kory Fleenor, an eyewitness to the alleged stabbing said Snyder ag-gressively followed a pickup truck the eyewitness and Erschabeck were riding in to a friend’s house. The eye-witness said the victim approached the driver’s side of the truck Snyder was driving and said he could tell “Snyder was psyching himself up for a confrontation.”

The witness reported he saw Sny-der exit his truck, and that Snyder

then “aggressively and very quickly moved around the front of the pick-up and stabbed Erschabeck in the chest,” the affidavit said.

The eyewitness st ated in the affi-davit that Snyder “never spoke or made any noise during the move-ment or the stabbing.”

Snyder was later apprehended and interviewed at the Goshen County Detention Center by Flee-nor and Investigator Rick Scott, where he said he had acted to de-fend himself. Snyder told the in-vestigators that he had confronted Erschabeck because he believed Er-schabeck had stolen the title to his truck.

Snyder told the investigators that he followed the victim and the eye-witness “so he could confront Er-schabeck about taking his title,” the affidavit said.

“Although Mr. Snyder admitted to stabbing Erschabeck in the chest, he stated Erschabeck was the ag-gressor and he had to act in self-defense,” the affidavit said.

Snyder murder case delayed for more mental evaluations