State v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “The court shall determine whether the trial judge granted, the defendant’s motion for appointment of a sanity commission, before the defendant attempted to withdraw the motion, thereby finding reasonable grounds to doubt the defendant’s competency to proceed and staying all further proceedings by operation of La.C.Cr.P. art. 642 until that determination was made. In the event that the trial judge did grant the motion before defendant attempted to withdraw it, the court shall further determine whether the trial judge then appointed (or failed to appoint) the commission doctors or conducted (or failed to conduct) a hearing on the commission’s reports and determined (or failed to determine) the defendant’s competency to proceed before he went to trial. On the basis of its factual findings, the court is then to rule on the question of whether the defendant is entitled to set aside his convictions and sentences under this Court’s decisions in State ex rel. Seals v. State, 00-2738 (La.10/25/02), 831 So.2d 828 , and State v. Nomey, 613 So.2d 157 (La.1993).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Lee