Loeffler v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “some evidence” must be “more than a minutia or scintilla of evidence” and must be sufficient to support a “rational finding” in favor of the defense (quoted authority omitted)
• noting that the superior court should not abdicate its judicial responsibility to determine whether a criminal defendant is competent to stand trial
• stating that when “a defendant establishes a prima facie case of incompetency through the introduction of uncontroverted expert testimony, the trial court should delineate its reasons for rejecting that testimony and those reasons must be supported by the record”
• court erred by not giving requested instruction on self-defense even though “defendant testified inconsistently on numerous occasions”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).