LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The woman charged with killing her 5-year-old son and hiding his body in a suitcase in southern Indiana is trying to act as her own attorney.
Dejuane Anderson filed dozens of handwritten legal motions on her own behalf in her criminal case.
Anderson is charged with the murder of her son, Cairo Jordan. A mushroom hunter found the child's body in a suitcase in the woods in Washington County in 2022.
The new motions are handwritten on legal pad paper, which is unusual. In the filings, Anderson claims to be representing the "entity" of Dejuane Anderson. She makes various requests to the court, including attempts to dismiss the case and change the judge.
Dejuane Anderson, charged with the murder of her 5-year-old son, Cairo Jordan, filed dozens of handwritten legal motions on her own behalf in her criminal case.
Last month, Judge Larry Medlock ordered a psychologist and a psychiatrist to examine Anderson to determine if she's competent to stand trial. The order came following a court appearance where Anderson claimed she had been under federal surveillance for eight months, identified herself with a name beginning with "Princess," and said she was "representing the entity" of Anderson.
Prior to that court hearing, Anderson sent multiple messages to the court asking Medlock to dismiss her case, which was denied. Another message told the court she was firing her public defender and requested to defend herself.
Anderson was arrested on March 15 in California after nearly two years on the run before being extradited back to Indiana. An autopsy of Cairo Jordan's body found the child died from vomiting and diarrhea that led to dehydration, according to Indiana State Police. Investigators said he had died about a week or less before the mushroom hunter found his body, which had been stuffed into a suitcase.
She's charged with murder, neglect and obstruction of justice.
Dawn Coleman, 41, of Shreveport, Louisiana, was sentenced to 30 years in prison with five years suspended to probation after pleading guilty to aiding, inducing or causing murder, neglect of a dependent resulting in death, and obstruction of justice.
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