Rever v. Acevedo

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• holding that although a federal court's review is limited to the last decision to ad dress the arguments on the merits, its deference to factual findings in state court is not so limited
• finding that increase in the dosage of defendant’s medication, on its own, is not sufficient evidence to rebut the state court's finding [of competence]” and distinguishing Burt as a case that included evidence of incompetence in addition to “ever-changing doses of psychotropic medication”
• adjustment in petitioner’s medication was not sufficient to call his competency into question
• “not every mental illness demonstrates incompetence to stand trial”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Rice v. White
  Sixth Circuit· 2011-10-24· cited 232×
• Steven Crittenden v. Kevin Chappell
  Ninth Circuit· 2015-10-26· cited 74×
• Byers v. Basinger
  Seventh Circuit· 2010-07-09· cited 34×
• United States ex rel. Parish v. Hodge
  N.D. Illinois· 2014-09-12· cited 4×
• Morgan v. Chandler
  Seventh Circuit· 2010-03-11· cited 4×
• United States Ex Rel. Anderson v. Hardy
  N.D. Illinois· 2011-04-21· cited 3×
• United States Ex Rel. Noble v. Jackson
  N.D. Illinois· 2010-12-16· cited 2×
• United States ex rel. Coleman v. Chandler
  N.D. Illinois· 2012-02-16