Court Opinion

ID: 9685205
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 14:26:06.821749+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:18:03.292983
License: Public Domain

MASON, Justice
(dissenting) (serving by special assignment).
As noted in my dissent to the court’s original opinion, I do not believe the Supreme Court decision in Rivera v. Delaware, 429 U.S. 877, 97 S.Ct. 226, 50 L.Ed.2d 160, controls the situation here because it involved a defense of insanity rather than an issue of mental capacity to stand trial. Under the reasoning in my prior dissent, I would hold § 783.2 violates the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
RAWLINGS and McCORMICK, JJ., join this dissent.