Cohn v. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance

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• where mistrial declared after defense counsel suggested that defendant was mentally incompetent, double jeopardy did not prevent subsequent trial because court was presented with \urgent necessity\ in that any purported effort to try an incompetent person is void ab initio

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