Joe Stevenson Saddler v. United States

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• pointing to defendant’s unresponsive answers to the court’s inquiries as “warning flags” indicating that defendant may not have been competent to plead guilty
• pointing to defendant's unresponsive answers to the court's inquiries as \warning flags\ indicating that defendant may not have been competent to plead guilty
• finding 8 abuse of discretion where a defendant had an extensive mental health history and was incoherent 9 during hearings
• \plea may be accepted only if the waiver is found to be voluntar[il]y and intelligently given\
• “plea may be accepted only if the waiver is found to be voluntar[il]y and intelligently given”
• “[i]f the judge, in response to his Rule 11 inquiries or because of information received from other sources has reasonable grounds to doubt the defendant’s competence,” a hearing is required

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).