In Re Detention of Cubbage

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that alleged SVP “does not have a fundamental right to be competent during his SVPA proceedings”
• finding that a lack of pretrial evaluation of competency causes no deprivation of due process rights
• finding that a lack of pretrial evaluation of competency causes no deprivation of due process rights
• holding respondent does not have statutory or constitutional right to a competency determination under Iowa’s sexually violent predator commitment proceeding, reasoning the proceeding is not criminal
• finding no fundamental right to be competent during SVP statute proceedings and, thus, that commitment of incompetent people is consistent with substantive due process under the Iowa Constitution
• holding no constitutional right to competence during chapter 229A proceedings

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).