Second mental exam possible in abortion clinic shooting plot
Bierma, who said she doesn’t want Lang back in Wisconsin yet, also needs to decide whether she wants Lang evaluated in Seattle or here. Lang has stressed he wants to return to Wisconsin, Crocker said. U.S. Attorney John Vaudreuil noted that it takes the U.S. Marshal’s Service “some time” to move inmates across the country.
“I’m opposed to moving him,” Bierma said, until she has consulted with a mental health expert.
Crocker denied Bierma’s request for a hearing during the week of Dec. 12, saying “that’s a nearly a month out,” and he wants to accommodate Lang’s request to return to the state.
Instead, Crocker set a status conference for Dec. 2, when Bierma is expected to report how she wants to proceed with the case.
Lang was charged with allegedly threatening to injure or harm reproductive health care workers after telling Madison police in May that he came to Madison “to lay out abortionists because they are killing babies,” according to court documents.
Lang’s statements to Madison police resulted in being charged in Dane County Circuit Court with first-degree intentional homicide. That case has also been put on hold pending results of the psychological evaluation.
Madison police were summoned to an east side motel to investigate a gunshot and learned that Lang’s handgun was accidentally discharged through a door.