Incompetent to Serve a Sentence?

Published for NC Criminal Law on March 09, 2010.

In Ford v. Wainwright, 477 U.S. 399 (1986), the Supreme Court held that “the Eighth Amendment prohibits a State from carrying out a sentence of death upon a prisoner who is insane.” In other words, a defendant who was sane at the time of the crime, and competent at the time of his trial, but ... Read more

The post Incompetent to Serve a Sentence? appeared first on North Carolina Criminal Law.