Jonathan Huey Lawrence v. Secretary Florida Department of Corrections

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• concluding that counsel’s decision not to request a competency hearing was not deficient when “neither counsel testified . . . that [the defendant] was ever unable to communicate with [counsel] or assist [counsel] in his defense”
• adhering to “both pre– and post-AEDPA precedent . . . holding that substantive competency claims generally cannot be procedurally defaulted”
• affirming the district court’s finding that a diagnosis of schizophrenia is not enough to show that a defendant was incompetent to enter a guilty plea or stand trial
• affirming the district court’s finding that a diagnosis of 56 Case: 12-15422 Date Filed: 05/21/2013 Page: 57 of 65 schizophrenia is not enough to show that a defendant was incompetent to enter a guilty plea or stand trial
• “The October 1998 competency evaluations, the transcripts taken from (and the evidentiary hearing testimony regarding

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