Surber to Undergo Evaluation Before Preliminary
A strong police presence was evident as 37-year-old Donald Surber Junior arrived at
Berkeley County Prosecuting Attorney Pamela Games-Neely said that the court appointed the public defenders office as Surber’s council because there is no financial affidavit. The public defender’s office does not feel Surber is competent to go through the preliminary hearing at this time and so waived his right to preliminary hearing within 20 days on Surber’s behalf.
Games-Neely says Surber will be evaluated at Eastern Regional Jail where he is being incarcerated. The doctors will be chosen by the defense and then the preliminary hearing will be rescheduled. Competency evaluations typically take between 30 and 60 days for completion to report.
Surber returned to Eastern Regional Jail from a correctional facility in