Robert Friar, Petitioner v. Honorable Harold S. Erwin, Jackson County Circuit Court, Criminal Division, Respondent

Summary

The court denied mandamus but granted certiorari in part, holding that the circuit court properly ordered a fitness-to-proceed examination after finding reasonable suspicion, but lacked authority to order a criminal-responsibility examination before Friar filed notice of an intent to raise a mental-disease-or-defect defense. The court rescinded the criminal-responsibility-examination order and held that the simultaneous-examinations issue was moot. No separate opinions were filed.