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year-old inmate Silver McClanahan escape during a medical transport Tuesday and prevented it.
• McClanahan is serving a life sentence for killing Ronald Broadersen of Aberdeen with a hammer in 1994. He was not immediately charged in the alleged escape plot but is in disciplinary segregation.
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Judge allows teen SD murder suspect psych report
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A judge has rejected a defense request to suppress the findings of a psychological evaluation of a Pierre teenager charged with killing a classmate.
• Attorneys for Braiden McCahren, now 17, believe psychologists went too far in their examination, delving into events surrounding the Dec. 18 fatal shooting of 16-year-old Dalton Williams when the evaluation was supposed to determine only whether McCahren was a danger to himself or the community. They believe McCahren's constitutional rights were violated.
• Prosecutor Michael Moore disagreed, saying no limitations were placed on the evaluation.
• McCahren is accused of killing Williams with a shotgun following an argument about a paintball game that also involved a third boy. McCahren, who was 16 years old at the time of the shooting, is being prosecuted in adult court. He has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and alternate counts of aggravated assault.
• Kari Scovel, a clinical psychologist who evaluated McCahren along with a colleague, testified during a Thursday hearing that she had to ask about the incident -- what happened and how the patient felt while it happened -- to fully develop an opinion about McCahren's risk of harming himself or others.
• "All of those things are essential to understand a risk assessment," she said.
• Scovel said she advised McCahren of his right to remain silent every time they met because of his lawyers' concerns and his status as a minor.
• Judge John Brown ruled that the evaluation can be used during a September hearing on whether McCahren's case should be transferred from adult court to juve (Continued on page 27)
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