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· 10/20/2015

Carlos D. Cotton v. State of Florida

Citations

  • 177 So. 3d 666

How courts have described this case

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

  • “[Ojnce a trial court has reasonable grounds to question competency, the court has no choice but to conduct a competency hearing.”
  • “If the trial court does not have sufficient grounds to believe that the defendant may lack competency, there is no obligation to hold a competency hearing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Kelsey, Thomas, Marstiller

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