Update February 9, 2016 1:05 p.m.:
Judge Teresa Harper has granted the request motion for Triceton Bickford to be examined by a psychiatrist. According to Harper's office staff, the motion was granted the day it was filed.
Original post:
The attorney for the former Indiana University student accused of attacking a Muslim woman filed a motion Monday to have him examined by a psychiatrist.
Triceton Bickford, 19, faces charges of battery against a public safety officer, strangulation, intimidation, battery resulting in bodily harm and battery by bodily waste.
Police say he attacked a Muslim woman outside Bloomington's Sofra Cafe in October. Witnesses told police Bickford yelled "white power" and "kill the police" as he squeezed the woman's neck and tried to remove her headscarf.
In a motion filed Monday, Bickford's attorney Katharine Liell says she plans to pursue a defense of mental disease or mental defect and asks the court to appoint at least two psychiatrists to examine Bickford.
Back in November, Judge Teresa Harper granted a motion for change of venue because of the publicity surrounding the case. Attorneys have until May 1 to decide on a county.
Bickford will appear in court again March 24 for a pretrial conference.