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Attorney Drew Segadelli, center, appears in Falmouth District Court at a pretrial hearing for his client murder suspect Adrian Loya.
FALMOUTH – Psychiatric evaluations are ongoing for the man accused of murdering a Coast Guard officer earlier this year.
Adrian Loya is still being examined at Bridgewater State Hospital.
He is accused of killing Coast Guard Officer Lisa Trubnikova and injuring her spouse Coast Guard Officer Anna Trubnikova at their home in Monument Beach in the early morning hours on February 5.
Bourne Police Officer Jared MacDonald was also shot while responding to the incident.
Loya, who was also a Coast Guard officer, traveled up to the Cape from Chesapeake, Virginia, just before the shooting.
Loya’s attorney, Drew Segadelli, was in Falmouth District Court Friday for a pretrial hearing on the case.
He requested $5,000 from the court towards his defense expenses.
The money he said, is “indigent seeking additional supplemental indigent funds to compensate the various experts completing the evaluations, whether it be private investigators or other such professionals, I can’t say right now. I believe it goes to the psychiatrist/psychologist though,” he said.
Segadelli said Loya will likely undergo three mental evaluations: one by the hospital staff, one by an expert hired by the defense, and one by an expert hired by the prosecution.
“Through my experience, I’d submit that the district attorney’s office will more than likely hire their own expert to complete their own evaluation. Keeping in mind that Bridgewater has their own people, as do I, as does the district attorney. They all work together and they all utilize the same database,” he said.
Segadelli said he has not yet determined his strategy for defending Loya or whether he will seek an insanity defense.
“I’m getting closer to the conclusion of my independent evaluation. No defense has been set forth yet,” he said.
Loya’s next court hearing is scheduled for July 16.
But by then, Segadelli said, he expects there will be news regarding a grand jury about the case.
“We’re in a holding pattern. Nothing has been heard from as it relates to the grand jury and whether it’s being presented, as it is a quote secret process,” he said.
If the grand jury returns an indictment, the case will move to Barnstable Superior Court, which has jurisdiction over charges such as murder. In Barnstable Superior Court, the case will start from the beginning with an arraignment.
By LAURA M. RECKFORD, CapeCod.com News Editor
