Lavin T. Balfour v. J. Ronald Haws

How courts have described this case

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• noting that for specific allegations of ineffective assistance courts must “weigh the over- all quality of representation provided to the defendant” and not individual shortcomings
• discussing counsel's awareness of defendant's psychiatric treatment or use of medication in the context of effective assistance
• affirming a district court’s finding that there was no bona fide doubt as to the defendant’s competence although the defendant was taking anti-psychotic medication at trial and sentencing and had recently undergone inpatient and outpatient psychiatric treatment
• \The fact that counsel did not raise the issue of Balfour's competence is probative of whether bona fide doubt existed as to Balfour's mental condition\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).