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PEOPLE v. ARY

No. S173309.

51 Cal.4th 510 (2011)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JAMES ARY, JR., Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

February 3, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Kyle Gee , under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Ann C. Moorman ; and John T. Philipsborn for California Attorneys for Criminal Justice as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr. , Attorneys General, Dane R. Gillette , Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler , Assistant Attorney General, Laurence K. Sullivan , Rene A. Chacon and Joan Killeen , Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

KENNARD, Acting C. J.—

A state that puts a mentally incompetent criminal defendant on trial violates the due process clause of the federal Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment. This constitutional provision also requires that, whenever the evidence raises a reasonable doubt about a defendant's mental competence, a hearing be held in the trial court to assess the defendant's mental...

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