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· 12/12/2000

United States v. Giron-Reyes

Citations

  • 234 F.3d 78
  • 2000 U.S. App. LEXIS 31521
  • 2000 WL 1803890

How courts have described this case

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

  • applying plain error review to unpreserved claim that after defendant found incompetent, court must hold second competency hearing and find the defendant mentally fit before proceeding with the case
  • defendant's apparent inability to understand critical aspects of the proceedings, including the role of the jury and the Sentencing -12- Guidelines, suggested that defendant may not have been competent
  • “Initial competency statutory mechanisms, the district court would have been hearings under [§ 4241](a
  • remanding with direction to resolve threshold question of meaningfulness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Selya, Coffin, Stahl

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