Exantus plans to introduce mental health evidence in trial

WOODFORD COUNTY, Ky. (WTVQ)- An Indiana man accused of murdering a 6-year-old Versailles boy was back in court Wednesday.

Ronald Exantus ad his lawyers were in Woodford Circuit court to file a notice saying they plan to  introduce mental health evidence during his trial.

Exantus is charged with the 2015 murder of 6-year-old Logan Tipton.

Police say Exantus stabbed Tipton to death inside his home in Versialles.

A judge deemed Exantus competent to stand trial.

His lawyers say they will be introducing mental health evidence during his trial.

The Commonwealth also filed a motion to seek their own mental health evaluation.

“We’re not entirely certain, I’d say, where this is going because we’re not experts who can conduct these evaluations. Ultimately it’s going to come down to what the various mental health experts are going to say about whether he was insane, criminally responsible at the time,” said Kim Green, Exantus’s defense attorney.

Exantus’s trial is set to begin in August, however the defense is trying to get that date changed because the judge who originally presided over the case is no longer there.

If convicted, Exantus faces the death penalty.