United Transportation Union v. Cuyahoga Valley Railway Co.

How later courts describe this case

• determining that raising the insanity defense and offering supporting evidence waives the defendant's Fifth Amendment rights as to the State's use of psychiatric rebuttal evidence
• “A defendant has a separate and distinct Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination at the punishment phase.”
• State's introduction of testimony from examining psychiatrists to rebut appellant's presentation of an insanity plea is not error—appellant waives his Fifth Amendment rights when he introduced examination evidence to prove his insanity defense
• Iowa Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of § 668A.1 (2) (b)
• Iowa Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of § 668A.l(2)(b)
• Criminal District Attorney of Smith County