Issue of Psychiatric Counsel Brings Reprieve
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday granted a reprieve to Georgia Death Row inmate Jerome Bowden, ordering a federal appeals court to decide whether Bowden had been unconstitutionally denied his right to a state-funded psychiatrist.
The justices, in returning the case to the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, cited a ruling this term in an Oklahama case in which they had declared that defendants who plead insanity are entitled to a state-funded psychiatrist to assist in the preparation of their defense.
Bowden was sentenced for the 1976 armed robbery, aggravated assault and murder of Kathryn Scryker.
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