Legal Opinion
State v. Lightell
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided April 19, 2000No. 98-KA-2246Published
1Opinion of the Court
BYRNES, Judge.
On March 29, 1993, the defendant, Carl J. Lightell, through counsel, pled not guilty to the second degree murder of Edmond Black. On September 20, 1993, the defense filed a motion for a sanity commission. A sanity hearing was conducted on November 30, 1993, at which both members of the sanity commission, Dr. Paul Kantack and Dr. Rafael Salcedo, were examined, documents were admitted into evidence, and the court found the appellant not competent to proceed to trial. Following care and treatment at the Feliciana Forensic Facility, another sanity hearing was held on January 26,…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Faretta v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- North Carolina v. AlfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- State v. BodleySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1981
- State v. NomeySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1993
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