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· 6/29/1988

Austin Flugence v. Robert H. Butler, Sr., Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary

Citations

  • 848 F.2d 77
  • 1988 U.S. App. LEXIS 8885
  • 1988 WL 59343

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “A medical inquiry into competency is a fact-finding exercise, and the factual finding of competence is presumed to be correct.”
  • “emotional outbursts and invocations of the Deity [not] so bizarre as necessarily to be reflective of incompetence”

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Judges: Thornberry, Gee, Politz

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