Phillips v. Araneta

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that a trial judge ordering a defendant to participate in a mental-health examination must protect the defendant’s privilege against incrimination by ensuring no statement made by the defendant may be used by the prosecution
• applying Schackart to the 6 penalty phase of a capital trial
• additional post-examination testing and investigation “may be crucial to an expert’s ability to accurately assess and diagnose a defendant’s mental health”
• “When a defendant places his mental condition at issue, . . . he generally 22 ‘opens the door’ to an examination by an expert selected by the state or the court.”
• applying Schackart to the penalty phase of a capital trial
• same, regarding mental-health-related mitigation evidence in penalty phase of trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).