State v. Cellier

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Abbott, J.:

This is a direct appeal by the defendant, Lance Charles Cellier, from his convictions for first-degree premeditated murder and aggravated kidnapping. The defendant challenges the admissibility of four statements, the voluntariness of his waiver of his Miranda rights, his competency to stand trial, the constitutionality of the competency statute, and the sufficiency of the evidence to find that he was not insane when he committed the acts at issue.

It is not disputed that Cellier killed Scott Payton, age 19, on February 25, 1994, by shooting…