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STATE v. EDWARDS

No. 19797.

572 N.W.2d 113 (1997)

1997 SD 130

STATE of South Dakota, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Vernon EDWARDS, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Reassigned August 19, 1997 and November 3, 1997.

Decided November 25, 1997.

Rehearing Denied December 31, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Barnett, Attorney General, Grant Gormley, Assistant Attorney General, Pierre, for plaintiff and appellee.

Cynthia A. Howard, Minnehaha County Public Defender, Sioux Falls, for defendant and appellant.

KONENKAMP, Justice (on reassignment).

[¶ 1.] We must decide whether a competency hearing is required when a psychiatrist verifies a defendant understands the court proceedings, but states further observation would be "helpful" in deciding if defendant's "ideas are the product of mental illness or disgust with the system." At times, Vernon Edwards disrupted proceedings, lapsed into irrelevant rambling, and demanded a new attorney, yet based upon his answers to...

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