Russel William Burket v. Ronald Angelone, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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• emphasizing that defendant was told he was not under arrest and was “free to leave at any time”
• reviewing court “must be highly deferential in scrutinizing [counsel’s] performance and must filter the distorting effects of hindsight from [its] analysis”
• reviewing court “must be highly deferential in scrutinizing [counsel’s] performance and must filter the distorting effects of hindsight from [its] analysis”
• defendant’s statement to the police “I think I need a lawyer” 13 did not constitute an unequivocal request for counsel
• “[Njeither low intelligence, mental deficiency, nor bizarre, volatile, and irrational behavior can be equated with mental incompetence to stand trial.”
• “the fact that the petitioner has been treated with anti-psychotic drugs does not per se render him incompetent to stand trial”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).