MENTAL COMMITMENT: Right to testify not denied by Judge’s interruption after familiar figure in commitment proceedings had testified for significant time… McLean affirmed (IOR I-3(d)). [Read more…]
Medical incapacity, ordered hysterectomy
MEDICAL INCAPACITY: Order by Townsend for woman diagnosed with cancer to undergo hysterectomy over objections based on [Read more…]
Deliberate homicide accountability, threat to kill
DELIBERATE HOMICIDE ACCOUNTABILITY: Claim of ineffective assistance for not requesting accomplice instruction more amenable to postconviction… Defendant’s statement from 4 years earlier that he would like to kill victim properly admitted… Prosecutor’s comments on [Read more…]
Revocation, “personality disordered” v. mental
REVOCATION: Sufficient evidence that “personality disordered” Defendant did not suffer mental disease… properly revoked, properly sentenced to MSP rather than alternative… McLean affirmed. [Read more…]