A judge has declared a western Kentucky man competent to stand trial for the slaying of his 9-year-old sister.
The Kentucky New Era reports Todd Circuit Judge Tyler Gill said Wednesday that the Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center found 21-year-old Garrett Dye competent enough to help in his defense.
He is scheduled to go on trial March 9 in the 2011 fatal beating of his adoptive sister, Amy Dye, whose body was found near the farm where they lived.
Garrett Dye pleaded guilty in 2011 and was sentenced to 50 years in prison, but reserved his right to appeal his confession to police. The Kentucky Supreme Court overturned his conviction and sentence in 2013, ruling that his confession was coerced. Justices ordered a new trial in the case.