United States v. Abraham Denkins, II

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• holding that defendant waived any competency challenge to guilty plea where counsel secured competency evaluation but later abandoned competency argument and withdrew any previous objections
• holding that “the district court was not obligated to press forward” when the defendant did not pur sue his ineompetency argument after an evaluation deemed him competent
• explaining that a claim is waived when a plaintiff initially raises it, then explicitly abandons it later
• noting that forfeiture, unlike waiver, does not extinguish “error” under Fed. R.Civ.P. 52(b)
• finding no due process violation where a court at sentencing agreed to defendant’s abandonment of a competency challenge previously brought
• finding waiver of motion to withdraw plea where defendant withdrew his challenge to competency, the sole basis of the motion

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