Second Trial
At the second trial, defense attorneys filed a motion of suggestion of insanity, and upon examination by court-appointed physicians, the state attorney Randall Slaughter agreed. McCollum was declared mentally incompetent and incarcerated for 20 years in the Florida State Hospital for mental patients at Chattahoochee, FL.
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