Shelbourne Enterprises, Inc. v. Last

How courts have described this case

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

• stating defendant’s yelling, coupled with derogatory and insulting statements and threats to sue counsel, was sufficiently egregious activity so as to forfeit the right to counsel
• “Due Process requires the trial court to inquire sua sponte as to the defendant’s competence in every case in which there is a reason to doubt the defendant’s competence to stand trial.” (internal quotation marks and citations omitted)
• “The Due Process clause protects an incompetent person from criminal conviction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).