SALEM – George Sideris, the suspended Peabody police officer accused of beating his mother in 2004, demanded a “fair trial” Thursday in Superior Court.Sideris, 36, was tearful as he pleaded with Judge Howard J. Whitehead to give him back his respect and schedule him a trial, adding he will accept the consequences.”Give me a fair trial. I’ve got to get a fair trial. I’m here for a trial today. They took away my name, mother and my respect. I need my self-respect. I’m not taking a plea,” Sideris emphatically told Whitehead.But Assistant District Attorney Karen H. Hopwood told Whitehead that their expert psychiatrist is still waiting for medical reports and is not in a position to evaluate Sideris until he gets the reports.Whitehead carefully explained to Sideris that because there is question concerning his competency and that the commonwealth now wants its own expert opinion of his mental status, the case cannot move ahead until the issue is resolved.”Competency has to continue,” Whitehead explained, noting, “We have to settle this position.”Sideris faces charges stemming from a Thanksgiving Day 2004 assault on his elderly mother, Melpomeni Sideris, who was 73 at the time, which he denies but apparently admitted to his priest.The beating was so severe that Mrs. Sideris was in a coma for several weeks and underwent surgery. She remains in a Lynn nursing home and, according to Hopwood, is uncommunicative.Sideris on Thursday also asked that the court appoint him a new attorney because he and his own retained attorney, Steven J. Rappaport, have different opinions concerning his mental status, but Whitehead said he was not discharging Rappaport.He told Sideris that it is not Rappaport’s doing, adding “Some people feel you are actually incompetent to stand trial.”Rappaport interceded explaining to Whitehead that his client believes he is competent, while he questioned the issue of his competency on a trial date this summer and still stands by that position.After the trial judge ordered Sidiris be examined by a state psychologist at Bridgewater State Hospital, it was determined Sideris is not competent to stand trial, but is not a danger to himself or anyone else and does not need to be confined to a mental institution.As a result, Sideris, who lives in an apartment on Walnut Street in Peabody, has remained free.Because of the delay concerning the competency issue, the judge extended the case to Nov. 26 for a status report.In the meantime, Whitehead told Sideris that if he wants to retain a new lawyer – his fourth since his arrest in November 2004 – he could do so as long as it does not delay the case.