Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
February 2017
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Sellers v. Sanders · Conner v. State · Lokos v. Capps · 574 So. 2d 671 - Handley v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“If before or during trial the court ... has [a] reasonable ground to believe that the defendant is incompetent to stand trial, the court shall order the defendant to submit to a mental examination by some competent psychiatrist selected by the court in accordance with § 99-13-11 of the Mississippi Code Annotated of 1972. After the examination[,] the court shall conduct a hearing to determine if the defendant is competent to stand trial. After hearing all the evidence, the court shall weigh the evidence and make a determination of whether the defendant is competent to stand trial. If the court finds that the defendant is competent to stand trial, then the court shall make the finding a matter of record and the case will then proceed to trial.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Though geared toward[ ] competency to stand trial, Rule 9.06 may be applied to a defendant’s entry of a guilty plea. The standard of competency necessary to enter a plea of guilty is the same as that for determining competency to stand trial. The key phrase in assessing a trial court’s responsibility to order a competency hearing is that a reasonable ground exist. ■ The determination of what is reasonable rests largely within the discretion of the trial judge because the judge sees the evidence first hand and observes the demeanor and behavior of the defendant. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals suggested the following test for reviewing a decision to forego a competency hearing: did the trial judge receive information which, objectively considered, should reasonably have raised a doubt about the defendant’s competence and alerted him to the possibility that the defendant could neither understand the proceedings, appreciate their significance, nor rationally aid his attorney in his defense?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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