Birdsboro Municipal Authority v. FMRR Dev.

How courts have described this case

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

• “[O]nce the court has reasonable grounds to question the defendant’s competency, the court has no choice but to conduct a hearing to resolve the question.”
• failure to make independent finding where no showing that trial judge “read all the evaluations.”
• “Because an independent competency finding is a due-process right that cannot be waived once a reason for a competency hearing has surfaced, the trial court fundamentally erred in failing to make such a finding.”
• “Because an independent competency finding is a due-process right that cannot be waived once a reason for a competency hearing has surfaced, the trial court fundamentally err[s] in failing to make such a finding.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).