State v. Edwards

LAVORATO, Justice.

After rejecting his insanity defense, a jury found the defendant, Robert Earl Edwards, guilty of kidnapping in the first degree. In his appeal from that conviction, Edwards raises three issues. He contends that (1) the district court’s failure on its own motion to order a competency hearing violated his due process rights, (2) the district court abused its discretion when it failed to warn him about disrupting the trial or to employ the alternatives of Iowa Rule of Criminal Procedure 25 to prevent such disruption, and (3) he was denied effective assistance of counsel because…