Lewis v. Weaver

How courts have described this case

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• requiring canvass of defendant entering plea of not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect to ensure that plea is knowing and voluntary when state substantially agrees with claim of mental disease or defect
• requiring trial court to canvass defendant, when defendant has entered plea of not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect and state agrees with defen- dant’s claim, explaining that invocation of supervisory power is ‘‘appropriate, in light of concerns of fundamen- tal fairness’’
• rule applies only in cases in which “state substantially agrees with the defendant’s claim of mental disease or defect”
• \[q]uestions of law and mixed questions of law and fact receive plenary review\
• “[questions of law and mixed questions of law and fact receive plenary review”
• habeas court improperly declared and applied new constitutional rule in collat- eral proceeding in contravention of principle enunci- ated in Teague

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