PROVO, Utah (AP) - A competency hearing for the Utah doctor convicted of killing his wife has been postponed in a separate sexual abuse case.
Defense attorney Randall Spencer says Martin MacNeill has only met with one of two doctors assigned to evaluate him and that review found his client competent.
Prosecutors want MacNeill to undergo the second assessment before they proceed to trial on one count of forcible sex abuse.
MacNeill was convicted in November for over-medicating his wife Michele MacNeill and leaving her to die in a bathtub.
Prosecutors say the sexual assault came a month later in May 2007. The Associated Press doesn’t normally identify alleged victims of sexual crimes.
Spencer is working to overturn MacNeill’s murder conviction, arguing it was based on perjured testimony.
MacNeill is due back in court May 5.
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