Joe Pedrero v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Dept. Of Offender Rehabilitation, State of Florida

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• state’s refusal to order psychiatric examination did not violate the due process principles announced in Bush since defendant’s sanity was not seriously in issue
• evidence that defendant had spent a year in a mental institution held insufficient to create bona fide doubt as to competence
• “Had [the defendant] testified at the arraignment in support of his insanity defense or his incompetency claim, that testimony could not have been admitted at trial over his objection. Simmons v. United States, 1968, 390 U.S. 377, 88 S.Ct. 967, 19 L.Ed.2d 1247.”

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