Legal Opinion
Lewis v. State
Court of Appeals of Alaska
Decided November 7, 2008No. A-9867PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MANNHEIMER, Judge.
The defendant in this case, Dekeitric Lar-on Lewis, was charged with several counts of assault: third-degree assault against two of his family members (his mother and his sister), third-degree assault against a police officer who came to their aid, and fourth-degree assault against a second police officer.
Lewis is chronically mentally ill, but his attorney announced that Lewis did not wish to claim insanity or even to claim that his mental disease or defect negated a culpable mental state needed to prove third-degree assault.
Under AS 12.47.070(a), a court is…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Estelle v. SmithSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
- DeNuptiis v. Unocal Corp.Alaska Supreme Court · 2003
- Ketchikan Retail Liquor Dealers Ass'n v. State, Alcoholic Beverage Control BoardAlaska Supreme Court · 1979
- R.H. v. StateCourt of Appeals of Alaska · 1989
3Cited by6 opinions
- State v. CliftonCourt of Appeals of Alaska · 2013
- Diggs v. StateCourt of Appeals of Alaska · 2012
- State v. AlexanderCourt of Appeals of Alaska · 2015
- State v. JouppiCourt of Appeals of Alaska · 2017
- Cook v. StateAlaska Supreme Court · 2013
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