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...
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