Court Opinion

ID: 9505288
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 20:03:10.880371+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:04:23.218038
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*547RUCKER, Justice,
dissenting.
For reasons previously expressed, I respectfully dissent from that portion of the majority's opinion denying. Corcoran's petition for rehearing on the question of his competency. See Corcoran v. State, 820 N.E.2d 655, 665 (Ind.2005) (Rucker, J., dissenting). I also respectfully dissent from the remainder of the majority's opinion because it essentially forecloses any chanee that Corcoran may obtain post-conviction review of his conviction and sentence. The majority correctly characterizes this case as "unusual." Op. at 548. Precisely for that reason, and because "execution is the most irremediable and unfathomable of penalties," Ford v. Wainwright, 477 U.S. 399, 411, 106 S.Ct. 2595, 91 L.Ed.2d 335 (1986), I would allow Cor-coran the opportunity to pursue collateral review of his claims.