· 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
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- 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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