251 N.C. App. 665 - State v. Mobley’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “provides three separate tests in the disjunctive. If a defendant is deficient under any of these tests he or she does not have the capacity to proceed. The test of a defendant's mental capacity to stand trial is whether he has, at the time of trial, the capacity to comprehend his position, to understand the nature and object of the proceedings against him, to conduct his defense in a rational manner, and to cooperate with his counsel to the end that any available defense may be interposed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 264 N.C. App. 640 - State v. Smith

2. “[a] defendant need not be at the highest stage of mental alertness to be competent to be tried.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 264 N.C. App. 640 - State v. Smith

3. “unable to comprehend his own situation in reference to the proceedings.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 264 N.C. App. 640 - State v. Smith