Court Opinion

ID: 9572909
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:45:42.833438+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:34:38.190017
License: Public Domain

*1262HOWE, Justice
(concurring):
I concur, except I desire to withhold my concurrence from any implication that defendant’s belief that he had received divine revelation to kill four people could not be relied upon by the examiners as a basis for their opinions as to his mental state. While I agree generally that religious beliefs and experiences may not be assumed to be unreal or inquired into by the courts, as stated in the majority opinion, it is unnecessary to the disposition of this case to rely on that rule when considering a religious belief as to divine direction to kill.
DURHAM, J., concurs in the concurring opinion of HOWE, J.