Legal Opinion
Gabbard v. Commonwealth
Kentucky Supreme Court
Decided December 22, 1994No. 93-SC-039-MRPublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEIBSON, Justice.
Scotty Allen Gabbard appeals as a matter of right his conditional plea of guilty but mentally ill to the charges of first-degree rape and first-degree assault. The issues addressed in this opinion relate to the proper procedures in a trial court’s determination of a defendant’s competency to stand trial.
The offenses to which Gabbard conditionally pled guilty occurred on August 2, 1988, when Gabbard was 17 years old. Gabbard has been incarcerated since that date. Two psychiatrists and one psychologist evaluated Gabbard five times before a competency hearing was held on…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Pate v. RobinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Drope v. MissouriSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Matthews v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1971
- Pate v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1989
- Via v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1975
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3Cited by25 opinions
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- Johnson v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2000
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