State v. Faron Raymond Hawkins

BURDICK, Chief Justice.

This is a permissive interlocutory appeal from the district court’s determination that the law of the case doctrine prohibited it from making a retroactive determination of Faron Hawkins’s mental competency when he stood trial in January 2008.

I. Factual and Procedural Background

In January 2008, a jury convicted Faron Hawkins of two counts of robbery. He appealed his conviction and the Idaho Court of Appeals issued a decision on December 30, 2009, vacating the conviction and remanding the matter for a new trial. The Court of Appeals determined that the district court…