Court Opinion

ID: 9471655
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 03:37:59.588089+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:42:31.189606
License: Public Domain

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING
COFFEY, Circuit Judge, with whom FLAUM, Circuit Judge, joins.
With all due respect, I feel compelled to dissent to this court’s decision to deny rehearing. In addition to the views expressed in my dissent, I believe that this court’s reasoning in the recent United States v. Johns, 728 F.2d 953 (7th Cir.1984) decision warrants a rehearing in the instant case. In Johns, our court remanded to the district court for a determination of the defendant’s competency at the time of that court’s proceedings due to its original failure to order a psychiatric examination. In light of Johns, where the question of sanity was much less pronounced, I believe the somewhat inconsistent result in the present case necessitates a rehearing. For the record, I think it also should be noted that within two months of Gutman’s conviction, Odom was recommitted to a mental health facility by court order.