Baqleh v. Superior Court

How courts have described this case

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• noting that in a competency proceeding, expert opinion is \ordinarily the most credible and persuasive evidence as to that issue.\
• “prosecution’s forensic psychiatrist could not testify credibly . . . unless he or she had the same access to petitioner that the defense experts enjoyed”
• although statutory scheme did not specify pretrial discovery that is allowable, “we must assume it contemplates that which is necessary to ensure a fair trial and [is] constitutionally permissible”
• “the Fifth Amendment is inapplicable at a [competency] hearing because the judicially declared immunity . . . provides the defendant all the protection against self-incrimination he or she needs”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).