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· 6/28/2011

Robidoux v. O'BRIEN

Citations

  • 643 F.3d 334
  • 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 13140
  • 2011 WL 2535566

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “We have previously declined to delve into the relationship between subsections (d)(2) and (e)(1), as has the Supreme Court, and again have no need to do so.”
  • “We can hardly find the [court’s failure to initiate a competency inquiry] unreasonable when there is little evidence anywhere that [the defendant] failed to understand the proceedings and virtually none that he was unable to cooperate with counsel.”

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Judges: Boudin, Souter, Selya

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