The State v. Ricky Lee Blackwell — Pleicones, J., Dissenting

Summary

Justice Pleicones dissents, arguing Blackwell is mentally retarded and ineligible for death, that the trial court erred by refusing to allow cross‑examination using privileged mental‑health records, that chaplains’ notes should be admitted, and that the sentencing jury should decide the mental‑retardation issue before any other evidence; Justice Few concurs in the result but differs on one subsection.