Legal Opinion · Dissent
Dunn v. Commonwealth
Kentucky Supreme Court
Decided October 31, 1978Published
1DissentLukowsky, Justice
The record establishes that the trial judge was made aware of the following facts either before or during trial.
1. Dunn was arrested at Western State Mental Hospital while attempting to obtain medication.
2. Dunn had been diagnosed a psychotic, schizophrenic, paranoid type, chronic, permanent as early as 1939.
3. On a number of occasions Dunn had been adjudged to be legally and psychiat-rically insane.
4. Dunn was receiving social security benefits as a result of his mental illness.
5. Dunn maintained he was being fraudulently persecuted in “kangaroo” courts as a result of a conspiracy involving…
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- State v. BauerSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1976
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