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Defendant in Oklahoma church-bombing plot to mount insanity defense, lawyer says

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By DAVID HARPER - Tulsa World

A man who is accused of plotting to destroy dozens of Ottawa County churches will mount an insanity defense, according to a pleading filed Wednesday by his attorney.

Gregory Arthur Weiler II, 24, was ruled mentally incompetent on April 3 by U.S. Magistrate Paul Cleary and was committed to a U.S. Bureau of Prisons facility for evaluation and treatment.

On Wednesday, Assistant Federal Public Defender Stephen Greubel wrote that Weiler is in custody at a federal facility in Butner, N.C., and gave formal notice that he plans to claim that Weiler was insane at the time of the alleged plot.

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