Legal Question in Criminal Law in Arizona

Re: mental incompetence

First off, thank you for posting the most intelligent and legitimate question ever posted to this board. I am happy to answer. Candidly, what you raise is a fairly complex questions that would have to be answered through, most likely, a petition for post conviction relief inasmuch as the right to direct appeal was waived through a plea agreement. Rule 32 governs this and I would surmise that although the State would argue that the time has lapsed, an argument could be made as newly discovered evidence as to competence exists. Was a Rule 11 evaluation done in pre-conviction proceedings? Who was defense counsel? Were they any good and what will their file say about mental status of the accused? So you see, there is a lot going on here. I'm happy to get involved, but I want to be up front and let you know that any good lawyer is going to charge you some serious money. How much, I couldn't quote you until I reviewed some more things. Also, you may need a private Rule 11 evaluation, rather than the cursory crap the court evaluators do (crank'em in, crank'em out). Best of luck and let me know if I can further assist.