Abram J. Jordan v. Louis L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections’s Empirical Analysis

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10 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

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1. “We note that the motion asserted only that counsel had difficulty communicating with his client. No showing was made of prior hospitalization for or diagnosis of mental difficulties or of prior adjudication of incompetency. No evidence of any kind was proffered to support the motion. The trial judge denied it stating that he had observed the petitioner closely throughout previous court appearances and actual trials, and knew him to be a keen witted person, competent to stand trial. ..... The teaching of Pate v. Robinson, 1966, 383 U.S. 375 , 86 S.Ct. 836 , 15 L.Ed.2d 815 , is that the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution requires that state criminal trials not proceed against incompetents. But no sanity hearing is mandated by Pate v. Robinson by a naked suggestion that the defendant may be incompetent. Evidence must be presented which is sufficient to raise a "bona fide doubt" as to the defendant's competency to stand trial,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 384 So. 2d 730 - Walker v. State

2. “naked suggestion that the defendant may be incompetent”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Baldwin v. Scroggy