Thomas L. Esmond v. State of Indiana

OPINION

MATHIAS, Judge.

Thomas L. Esmond (“Esmond”) brings this interlocutory appeal from the order of the Newton Superior Court requiring him to undergo a psychiatric evaluation by the State’s mental health expert without the presence of counsel. Because the Indiana Supreme Court has held that a defendant who raises an insanity defense has no right to the presence of counsel during a psychiatric examination, we affirm.

*214Facts and Procedural History-

According to the charging information, on December 18, 2012, Esmond stabbed an eight-year-old boy in the chest and arms at a home in Kentland,…