Johnson v. Keane

How courts have described this case

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

• “[subjecting an incompetent person to trial is a violation of that person’s constitutional right to due process”
• “holding one competency hearing at the beginning of the proceedings may not satisfy the constitutional requirement that courts [must] establish that the defendant is fit to stand trial.”
• “Upon review, an appellate court owes deference to the trial court’s determinations, in recognition of the trial court’s superior opportunity to observe ‘the defendant during the [pretrial and trial] proceedings.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).