The Adams County District Attorney’s office made the decision in Jan. 2016 to seek the death penalty in the case against Abraham Cruz Jr. (Photo: File, The Evening Sun) Abraham Cruz Jr., 57, appeared in Adams County Court on Monday afternoon in front of Judge Thomas Campbell for a pre-trial hearing in regard to charges he is facing from the 1980 murders of 17-year-old Deborah Patterson and her mother, Nancy Patterson. Cruz Jr. was charged in 2015 and now faces two counts each of murder of the first, second and third degree, criminal conspiracy to commit homicide, burglary and arson. Monday, Cruz’s attorneys filed a motion to suppress police interviews from the upcoming trial, claiming that Cruz was incompetent at the time of the interviews. The defense entered federal court competency proceedings from unrelated crimes as an exhibit. Cruz was deemed incompetent in 2012. The commonwealth called three witnesses…