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The Douglas County Judicial and Law Enforcement Center is pictured on Sept. 4, 2024.

A Lawrence man accused of a sex crime against a young teen has been deemed competent to stand trial.

The man, Quortez Eugene Longfellow Coleman, 22, is facing one felony count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child for intercourse with a girl between the ages of 14 and 16 in May of 2021. The incident allegedly occurred just months after he was granted probation in connection with other child sex crimes.

Longfellow Coleman’s attorney, Angelo Panas, in September requested that he undergo a competency evaluation, which Judge Stacey Donovan then ordered.

On Monday, Donovan declared him competent to stand trial after a report found no signs of mental illness or defect that would keep him from understanding the charge against him or assisting in his own defense.

Panas told Donovan he intended to file a suppression motion to keep certain statements out of evidence.

Panas also asked for his client to be freed from his GPS monitor, but Assistant District Attorney Samantha Foster told the court that the alleged victim and her father would be adamantly opposed to that. The alleged victim has “expressed fear” about Longfellow Coleman having reduced monitoring, Foster said. Donovan said she would take the matter under advisement and scheduled his next court appearance for Jan. 14.

According to Douglas County court records, Longfellow-Coleman was convicted in December of 2020 in connection with two counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and one count of lewd and lascivious behavior, stemming from two cases that were filed in 2018 when he was a juvenile. He was sentenced in February of 2021 to nine months of intensive supervised probation and was ordered to follow any recommendations that resulted from clinical assessments and a psychosexual evaluation.