Bernie Moore v. United States

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• holding that records show- ing defendant’s history of mental illness and instability raised reasonable doubt even though psychiatric report before his guilty plea found him competent
• noting that due process requires that when evidence raises a reasonable doubt about the defendant’s competency to stand trial, it is “substantial evidence” requiring that a competency hearing be held under the rule of Pate
• noting that due process requires that when evidence raises a reasonable doubt about the defendant's competency to stand trial, it is \substantial evidence\ requiring that a competency hearing be held under the rule of Pate
• “Evidence is ‘substantial’ if it raises a reasonable doubt about defendant’s competency to stand trial.”
• “Once there is [evidence raising a reasonable doubt as to the competency to stand trial] from any source, there is a doubt that cannot be dispelled by resort to conflicting evidence.”
• “[A] due process evidentiary hearing is constitutionally compelled at any time that there is ‘substantial evidence’ that the defendant may be mentally incompetent to stand trial.”

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