State v. Blackstock

OPINION

The defendant, who has an IQ of 55 and functions on the level of an eight to nine-year old child, was convicted by a jury for the aggravated sexual battery of a seven-year-old female. The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the trial court’s findings that the defendant was competent to stand trial, that the defendant voluntarily, knowingly, and intelligently waived his Miranda rights, that the trial court was without jurisdiction to order involuntary commitment and treatment as a mentally retarded offender, and that the defendant should not have been sentenced as an especially mitigated…