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On December 20, 2011 Antoine Lee Bynum killed his longtime girlfriend, Remmi Goyens. He claimed that his girlfriend had “put a voodoo trick” on him, and that the trick had resulted in voices in his head telling him that he could have been an NBA star or an NFL player.
In August 2016 after multiple incompetency determinations Bynum was declared competent and his case finally went to trial. A jury found Bynum guilty of second-degree murder and Bynum was sentenced to life in prison.
Interestingly, Bynum’s judgment and sentence were appealed, and on May 11, 2018 the Fifth District Court of Appeals remanded his case for further proceedings.
The defense had argued that the trial court committed fundamental error when it failed to “make an independent determination of [Bynum’s] competency.†The court of appeals agreed and reversed – but only for a retroactive competency hearing. (On all other matters the court of appeals affirmed.)
That competency hearing was held in Florida on August 3, 2018. The court retroactively found that Bynum was competent to proceed and issued an order to that effect, thus rectifying its previous error. Bynum is serving a life sentence.
The full police interview with Bynum will be posted tomorrow morning.
For those interested, the details on appeal:
On April 26, 2015, the day before trial was initially scheduled, Bynum’s counsel filed a notice of incompetency. As a result, the trial court held a competency hearing, and after considering the reports of two court-appointed experts, found Bynum incompetent to proceed and committed him to the Department of Children and Families (DCF) for treatment at a state hospital in accordance with Florida criminal law.
On August 31, 2015, mental health professionals at the North Florida Evaluation and Treatment Center filed a report representing that Bynum’s competency had been restored, and at the request of Bynum’s attorney the trial court once again appointed an expert to evaluate Bynum.
The trial court then held a competency hearing on October 22, 2015. However, no evidence was received at the hearing. Rather, Bynum’s attorney conveyed to both the State and the trial court that the expert had found Appellant competent to proceed. Even though it had not yet reviewed the expert’s report, the court found Bynum competent to proceed “based on the accord of [the expert], and based on the stipulations of the State and Defense.â€
The case then proceeded to trial on August 8, 2016, where Bynum admitted that he killed Goyens but raised an insanity defense. The jury convicted Appellant of the lesser-included offense of second-degree murder.
The court of appeals held that the trial court had committed fundamental error when it found Bynum competent to proceed based upon stipulation of parties and expert’s report which court had not reviewed, rather than making its own independent determination regarding Bynum’s competency. Essentially, the court must always make an independent determination as to a defendant’s competency to proceed; accepting a stipulation of the parties as to competency is not permitted.
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So he contained himself purposefully until the police arrived. Handy.
When you have a mental health disorder and you hear voices you do not take seizure meds!
Did y'all hear him when she asked about mental medications? He said he takes seizure meds but not for a mental health DISORDER! He hasn't been diagnosed either according to her. He's faking!
They dont mention which drugs were involved?
Please I have a favor to ask, to anyone that will listen. A person walks into a store and locks out the employee, clearly having a mental health shutdown. Please just stop life isn't important enough, running a store, getting this man out of the store is not as important as reaching out to this person. Sympathetize with people. You can pause your life and talk to this person that might talk them down. 4 cops running in barking "getting out" and then only concerned with leaving the store? Fuck that the store can stop for 10 minutes. Please have a heart. Most of these people are in pain, hear us out please. Be safe, protect yourself and others. But if we pose no threat, Be calm, be Sympathetic, mostly show your willing to listen. It can be the difference between life and death.
He might've been a nba or nfl player but it's apparent that he wouldn't make it as an actor. This playing crazy stuff isn't working. Why did it take the cops so long to get there?
Puts him in there with two women so they can silently guilt him to death
They purposely brought 2 females in the room.
Smh! Sad!!
Is this in Louisiana? Accent sounds FAMILIAR!!! Giggling my azz off
He is making a lot of very rational statements, (for a crazy person).
One of the most ludicrous staged act of insanity I've seen.
These worker's take there job to seriously like walk away and call 911. She obviously knows what he is doing isn't normal so something is wrong him.
He is lying.
The fool knew he would be opening himself up to demons once he smoked that pcp. Ill pray for him to be delivered from those demons while serving life.
What Voodoo do You do ?
…heard enough, not worth my time.
That man psycho
His mama sold him on the idea he could be an NBA or NFL star or POTUS
That store video does seem that he was very confused. Not stealing, not running and tells her to call the police. Maybe this guy really does hear voices. He keeps saying “what you all did to meâ€, sounded like he believed someone had done something. Kind of feel for him, mental health issues. Why would he fake that when he couldn’t have been running away after killing the girlfriend?
I knew I could’ve been an NBA star or an NFL player. Lmao
FAKING MENTAL ILLNESS.
"Did she have a problem with the fact that you had sex with her after you killed her?" "Well she didn't say anything if it did bother her." lol
“I’ll be fine if I come out†he really said that he ain’t crazy he knows his ass could of gotten shot someone really hear voices wouldn’t ask something like that
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Another broh with pro sport star fantasies
He's not too insane to know what comes next when someone's pointing a boomstick in his face!
It's strange the voice in their head never says Build a Porch. Never Buy a Kitten. Or Take a Community College Course in Business Management. It's always KILL. That's just strange. Very peculiar.
our favorite breed
This sounds like side effects of lean. That shit makes you crazy with long term use.
According to the most recent Florida Fifth District Court of Appeals ruling in Antoine L. Bynum v. State filed May 2018, he appealed his conviction. This was based on he was found to be incompetent twice then found competent. But the trial court did not review the new competent findings with their own independent sources so now his case is referred back to the trial court to do this and if they can not then he gets a new trial.
https://law.justia.com/cases/florida/fifth-district-court-of-appeal/2018/5d16-3342.html
Why was the cashier area even left unmanned and unlocked? Isn’t that an invitation for troubke? Lucky he didn’t rob and run, or even worse. He already killed someone.
Flakka.
Last time I checked, he was actually confirmed insane twice.