U.S. Supreme Court
Feb. 12, 2013
What do judges do?
Metrish presents the question whether a decision abolishing the common-law defense of diminished capacity eliminates that defense in the trial of a criminal defendant who committed his crime before that decision was handed down.
2nd Appellate District, Division 2
Brian M. Hoffstadt
Associate Justice
California Court of Appeal
UCLA School of Law, 1995
Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Metrish v. Lancaster, No. 12-547. Metrish presents the question whether a decision of the Michigan Supreme Court abolishing the common-law defense of diminished capacity eliminates that defense in the trial of a criminal defendant who committed his crime before that decision was handed down. The answer to this question will turn on the continuing validity of Rogers v. Tennessee, 532 U.S. 451 (2000), and, more s...
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