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· 5/25/2010

United States v. Arenburg

Citations

  • 605 F.3d 164
  • 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 10551
  • 2010 WL 2037009

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that district courts have an obligation to revisit a defendant’s competency if there is reasonable cause to do so
  • explaining that a competency evaluation is appropriate only if “reasonable cause” exists to believe the defendant may be incompetent
  • remanding for a determination of whether there is sufficient information to allow a meaningful retroactive competency hearing
  • remanding case for competency examination where defendant had been previously diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia
  • noting disfavor of nunc pro tunc determination in context of competency for self-representation
  • reasonable cause to reconsider defendant‟s competency where “he made repeated references to „radio waves,‟ 15 11-5462-cr(L); 10-3393-cr(con

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Miner, Cabranes, Wesley

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