United States v. George James Dockins

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• holding that a defendant was not entitled to a mistrial when the motion was based upon his own misconduct and the district court concluded that the defendant had been trying to provoke a mistrial
• upholding competency determination as not arbitrary or unwarranted where trial judge credited subjective evaluations and testimony over testimony by doctor who performed objective tests
• finding testimony insufficient to authenticate when the witness “had no knowledge, other than from reading the document, that the fingerprint card actually came from the Denver Police Department”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).