United States v. Braulio Antonio Batista

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• concluding that district court did not clearly err in finding feigned incompetency where defendant underwent five examinations, the first of which found him incompetent
• affirming district court's feigned incompetency finding when defendant intentionally did not take medication \to increase his chances of being found incompetent\
• noting that an argument was waived because it was conceded
• noting for safety valve to apply, advisory guideline range must be lower than the statutory minimum
• rejecting defendant’s claim that obstruction enhancement based on malingering would chill his right to have a competency hearing
• five mental health evaluations showed defendant was feigning a mental illness to avoid being found competent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).