[PA] Chief Curran competent for wife-murder trial

Former Bernville chief is ruled competent for trial
12/28/2007
Berks County, PA - A Northumberland County judge Thursday found that a former Bernville police chief is mentally competent to stand trial for the murder of his estranged wife. Judge Robert B. Sacavage entered the order after two court-appointed experts testified that Richard C. Curran suffers from psychosis and delusions but is able to understand the charges against him and participate in his defense. Curran, 33, of Mount Carmel, Northumberland County, is being held without bail in that county's prison for the Aug. 24, 2004, shooting death of his wife, Tina, outside Shamokin Area Community Hospital in Coal Township. She worked there as a practical nurse. Curran is charged with first-degree murder and related offenses. Police said he shot his wife seven times with his police-issued .40-caliber pistol as the couple argued over child support for their two daughters, then ages 4 and 8...

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[ethicomm]

Idiot cop that killed his idiot wife who was going to get child custody because of an idiot divorce system. Hopefully Curran gets killed in prison but then again, a few divorce lawyers ought to go to. The divorce system hates men and will ALWAYS award child custody to the wife even if she's an alcoholic, fist-fucking lesbian.