Baker v. Redfield

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• holding that exclusion of pretrial psychiatric report diagnosing defendant as chronic schizophrenic violated petitioner’s due process right to present evidence critical to his defense
• relying on Chambers to grant habeas relief based upon trial court's exclusion of evidence that defendant was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, during pre-trial competency evaluation, which prevented defendant from fully presenting his insanity defense at trial
• relying on Chambers to grant habeas relief based upon trial court's exclusion of evidence that defendant was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, during pre-trial competency evaluation, which prevented defendant from fully presenting his insanity defense at trial

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