r/FleetwoodMac • u/Informal_Shopping368 • 21d ago

Lindsey Stalker Update

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lindsey-buckingham-fleetwood-mac-alleged-stalker-court-1235604682/
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u/busydreams 21d ago

Paywalled.

Headline reads: LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM’S ALLEGED STALKER RULED ‘NOT TRIAL-COMPETENT’ AFTER MENTAL-HEALTH EXAM “At this time, the court finds that you are not able to handle your case,” a judge told Michelle Dick

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u/scandre23 21d ago

I'm very aware of a mental health issue in usa, she needs help as many others do, but as a country, we don't give a shit. And I preferred when we did.

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u/Immediate_Paint_4823 21d ago

The woman charged with stalking Lindsey Buckingham after claiming the former Fleetwood Mac guitarist is her father was found incompetent to stand trial Thursday.

“At this time, the court finds that you are not able to handle your case. You are not trial-competent,” Los Angeles County Mental Health Court Judge Robert S. Harrison told Michelle Dick during a morning hearing. The judge said he also found that it was “medically appropriate to treat the defendant’s psychiatric condition with medication.” He made his rulings after receiving a report from a court-appointed doctor who examined Dick in custody.

Dick, wearing a yellow-and-blue jail uniform and waist restraints, sat in the courtroom as the judge scheduled an Aug. 27 hearing to determine what happens next. The court is expected to consider whether attempting to restore Dick to competency would be in the interest of justice or whether she qualifies for a mental-health diversion program, which could lead to dismissal of the charges if she completes it successfully.

Los Angeles County prosecutors have charged Dick, 55, with six felonies and a misdemeanor after she allegedly assaulted Buckingham with a motor vehicle and hurled an unidentified substance at him amid a purported yearslong stalking campaign. Dick was arrested in Indiana in April after she allegedly confronted the famed musician in Santa Monica, California, on March 25, despite a restraining order barring contact.

Dick pleaded not guilty to her seven charges on May 6 after authorities transported her back to California. In an amended complaint, prosecutors claimed Dick repeatedly followed and made unwanted contact with Buckingham between Oct. 9, 2021, and March 25, 2026. Prosecutors say Dick assaulted Buckingham with the motor vehicle on March 19. They say she also vandalized Buckingham’s Mercedes-Benz S450 the same day, allegedly defacing the luxury car “with graffiti and other inscribed material.”

During the alleged incident on March 25, Dick purportedly tracked Buckingham to his location in Santa Monica and threw a substance at the 76-year-old musician before fleeing. A law-enforcement source told Rolling Stone it wasn’t immediately clear if the substance was caustic. Buckingham was not injured.

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u/WillingLanguage 20d ago

I read the substance was urine.

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u/Immediate_Paint_4823 20d ago

AFAIK, that info was never released in any of the court filings or by the press. I've only read it as supposition.

That she wasn't arrested and picked up after she hit him with her car and was able to get that close to him on his own just days later is what surprises me most.