Overview
- A judge on June 19 ordered Ahmad Jihad Bojeh to undergo a third competency evaluation by a psychiatrist before his first-degree murder case can move toward trial.
- Bojeh is charged in the January killings of brothers Robert and Douglas Kraft and their friend James Puchan, who were staying in a rental next to his Kissimmee home.
- Prosecutors asked for a psychiatrist to evaluate Bojeh’s medication dosage, whether symptoms may be feigned and how a 2021 not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity finding factors into current competence assessments.
- The defense objected to additional evaluations, arguing that the 2021 reports are not relevant to the 2026 charges, and the parties will reconvene in August after the psychiatric review is completed.
- The ordered review will pause trial timing and could shape how the court handles fitness to stand trial, what evidence is admissible about prior mental-health findings and the next legal steps for the victims’ families.