Legal Opinion

State v. Race

Montana Supreme Court

Decided October 21, 1997No. 96-624PublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Turnage

The Sixteenth Judicial District Court, Custer County, accepted Carl Sidney Race’s plea of guilty to two counts of deliberate homicide and two counts of attempted deliberate homicide. The court sentenced Race to four consecutive life terms, plus forty years’ imprisonment for use of a weapon in all four offenses, and declared him ineligible for parole. Race appeals. We affirm.

The issues are:

1. Did the District Court commit reversible error by ordering defense counsel to provide the court with a complete copy of the defense psychiatrist’s report when Race intended to have the psychiatrist…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Williams v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
  2. State v. DeSalvoMontana Supreme Court · 1995
  3. State v. DavidsonMontana Supreme Court · 1994

3Cited by9 opinions

  1. State v. FergusonMontana Supreme Court · 2005
  2. State v. J.C.Montana Supreme Court · 2004
  3. Benjamin v. TorgersonMontana Supreme Court · 1999
  4. Carl Race v. James SalmonsenCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2025
  5. State v. ChyatteMontana Supreme Court · 2014

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