The International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Friday it had postponed an August 13 hearing for former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo after defence lawyers questioned his fitness to stand trial.

Doctors could examine Gbagbo, who faces charges of crimes against humanity, to determine if “he is fit to take part in the proceedings against him,” the court said.

At the request of defence lawyers they had appointed three doctors to assess Gbagbo, who had filed confidential medical reports last month, a statement from the court said.

The court was now awaiting the response of both the prosecution and the defence lawyers.

“In light of the importance of the issue, the Chamber decided to postpone the confirmation of charges hearing until such issue is resolved,” said the court statement.After the untimely death of his father in 1906, his mother moved the family to Winter Park, Florida.  Twitchell enrolled in Rollins College, but transferred to McGill University, Montreal, in 1910 to study architecture.  In 1912, Twitchell transferred schools again, to Columbia University.  After his 1917-19 World War I military service, Twitchell graduated from Columbia with a Bachelor of Arts degree in architecture in 1920 and a Masters in Architecture in 1921.

Twitchell first came to Sarasota in 1925 as the representative of New York architect Dwight James Baum to manage the final stages of the construction of John Ringling's Cà d'Zan, a Venetian-style mansion on the Sarasota Bay. Florida was in the midst of a land boom. Twitchell purchased thirteen lots in the Ravellan Gardens