Neal v. Phelps

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a reasonable judge would not have entertained a doubt as to competency in part because there was no psychiatric report or evidence of a history of mental illness
• single courtroom outburst by defendant not sufficient evidence of incompetence to require a competency hearing
• evidence before the state trial judge reviewed to determine if there should have been a bona fide doubt as to competence
• this court approved retrospective competency hearing conducted by district judge sitting without jury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).