Commonwealth v. Wooten

Opinion of the Court by

Justice SCHRODER.

This is an appeal by the Commonwealth from orders of the Bracken Circuit Court relative to the court’s determination that Deanna Wooten was incompetent to stand trial on two counts of first-degree criminal abuse. We reject the Commonwealth’s arguments that the trial court erred in allowing funding for an independent defense expert for evaluation of Deanna’s competency, in allowing that expert to testify at the competency hearing, and in denying a motion for a more specific report by that expert. In light of the evidence that Deanna could not participate…