United States v. Hessam Ghane, Also Known as Sam Ghane

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• “stating that [a] district court may rely on one of two competing competency opinions given by qualified experts”
• rejecting Dr. Ghane’s reliance on prior evaluations finding him competent to establish his current competence
• finding defendant who suffered from intermittent periods of delusional paranoia and whose behavior indicated distrust of his own lawyers incompetent
• finding defendant who suffered from intermittent periods of delusional paranoia and whose behavior indicated distrust of his own lawyers incompetent
• but noting that “there remains the possibility that with medication and cooperation with his attorneys he may become sufficiently competent to stand trial at some future point”
• but noting that \there remains the possibility that with medication and cooperation with his attorneys he may become sufficiently competent to stand trial at some future point\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).