City Council approves all mayor's re-appointments
Jun. 16, 2010 · 3:42 a.m.
After much procedure, Ypsilanti City Council approved six mayoral re-appointments to city boards and committees Tuesday, including the two postponed from earlier...read more
Council postpones two reappointments
Jun. 4, 2010 · 4:57 p.m.
Two of Ypsilanti's volunteer board members were not reappointed on schedule Tuesday night, owing to a 4-2 vote by City Council to delay the appointments until...read more
Downtown properties to be rehabilitated
Jun. 4, 2010 · 10:40 a.m.
Three recently-vacated properties in downtown Ypsilanti, two of them condemned, will soon be renovated owing to recent purchase by a local development company and...read more
Ypsilanti Township authorizes litigation against Liberty Square
May. 28, 2010 · 6:53 p.m.
Residents living in the Liberty Square complex of townhouses will see a sticker appear on their homes Tuesday, when the Ypsilanti Township Building Department places...read more
Ford plant granted tax exemption by township
May. 24, 2010 · 5:44 p.m.
New machines and equipment will soon be wheeled into Ford's Rawsonville Plant in Ypsilanti Township as it begins manufacturing a line of batteries for the new global...read more
Photo by Ypsilanti Police
This photo of Dominic Oyerinde was taken by police after his January arrest. Facing four felony charges, including murder, Oyerinde's preliminary examination is scheduled for April 16.
Murder defendant found competent to stand trial
Apr. 1, 2009 · 10:31 a.m.
The man accused of bludgeoning his girlfriend to death in January was found competent to stand trial Tuesday.
Dominic Oyerinde, 20, faces four felony charges in relation to the death of his girlfriend, 17-year-old Ann Arbor resident Anna List. He is charged with open murder, assault to commit great bodily harm, assault with a dangerous weapon and larceny of a vehicle.
His preliminary examination was scheduled for April 16 in front of Judge Kirk Tabbey.
Tabbey made the ruling after Oyerinde’s initial preliminary exam was adjourned in January to allow time to conduct psychiatric evaluations to determine Oyerinde’s criminal responsibility and ability to stand trial, per two motions by his defense attorney Timothy Niemann.
Judge Richard Conlin, who ruled on the matter at the time, agreed to allow Niemann’s motions and have the tests conducted.
“The opinion of the forensic examiner was that Dominic was competent to stand trial,” Niemann said. “I did not contest those results.”
However, Niemann said the results of the evaluation to determine Oyerinde’s criminal responsibility were not made public and can remain sealed unless an insanity defense is pursued on his behalf.
Niemann would not comment as to whether he will employ an insanity defense for Oyerinde.
Oyerinde was transported back to the Washtenaw County Jail after the proceedings Tuesday. He was issued a $2 million cash bond at his arraignment Jan. 15.
List was found unconscious in the early morning hours of Jan. 13 near Recreation Park on Congress Street. She had been in a coma and hospitalized since, until she died more than a week later. An autopsy confirmed her death was a result of a blow to her head.
Police said witnesses had heard the couple fighting at a house down the street from the park. They had traced footsteps in the snow to the house, where List’s van was found missing. Oyerinde was apprehended by Detroit Police later that day in the same van.
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