JUSTICE HOBBS delivered the Opinion of the Court.
¶ 1 We accepted jurisdiction over this original proceeding to determine whether an indigent alleged juvenile offender is entitled as of right to a second competency evaluation at state expense. The petition initially framed the issue more broadly as "[w]hether the trial court judge abused his discretion by refusing to order a second competency evaluation at state expense." However, the public defender had justified...
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