John Steven Huggins v. State of Florida

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• “[Wjhere there is evidentiary support for the trial court’s resolution of conflicting expert testimony, this court will not disturb the trial court’s competency determination.”
• “[W]hen analyzing a competency determination on appeal, this Court applies the competent, substantial evidence standard of review. 4 In other words, a trial court’s determination of competency supported by competent, substantial evidence will not be disturbed on appeal.”
• on appeal of the denial of post conviction relief in a death penalty case, trial court did not abuse its discretion in failing to hold competency proceedings prior to the evidentiary hearing on whether Huggins was competent to proceed with post conviction matters
• on appeal of the denial of post conviction relief in a death penalty case, trial court did not abuse its discretion in failing to hold competency proceedings prior to the evidentiary hearing on whether Huggins was competent to proceed with post conviction matters

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).