State v. Bishop

FELDMAN, Vice Chief Justice.

This case is before us for the third time. The issue is whether Curtis Nelson Bishop was competent to plead guilty to murder in 1982. In State v. Bishop, 139 Ariz. 567, 571, 679 P.2d 1054, 1058 (1984) (Bishop I), we remanded the case for a new hearing on defendant’s competency. In Bishop v. Superior Court, 150 Ariz. 404, 407-08, 411, 724 P.2d 23, 26-27, 30 (1986) (Bishop II), we held that because a competency hearing is non-adversarial, the state could call defendant’s former counsel as a witness. We now review the trial court’s post-hearing determination that…