The Denver Post:  Attorneys for accused Planned Parenthood shooter Robert Lewis Dear Jr. filed a motion last week asking the court to bar him from contact with the news media.

Dear’s lawyers want the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo to prohibit those communications, which they say are “continuing” while he is at the state hospital.

“While he was incarcerated in the El Paso County Jail, Mr. Dear communicated with members of the media on numerous occasions,” the July 22 motion says. “Some of these communications were initiated by Mr. Dear himself. Others were unfortunately initiated by members of the news media, who appeared determined to exploit this mentally ill man and cause those impacted by this tragedy more grief for the sake of generating headlines.”

Dear’s defense team says the court has already found his mental illness prevents him from making rational decisions about how to proceed in his case, including his decision to speak to the media.

In May, Fourth Judicial District Chief Judge Gilbert Martinez found that Dear is not mentally capable of participating in and understanding the case against him. Martinez accepted psychologists’ conclusions that Dear suffers from a delusional disorder and that his delusions — which he has held for decades — include that federal agents are out to get him.

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