Kostic v. Smedley

How courts have described this case

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• where accused is not competent, “[t]he statutory right to have the assistance of counsel would, in such a case, become a nullity”
• petitioner had been examined by psychiatrist in connection with separate criminal action then pending in Alaska and judge ordered examination because of petitioner’s previous history of psychiatric illness
• “On remand the court shall make an express determination of whether appellant, as a result of mental disease, lacks the ability to aid his counsel and comprehend the nature of the habeas corpus-extradition proceedings with a reasonable degree of rational understanding.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).