United States v. Ricky Dewayne Lewis

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• holding that crimes committed three days apart took place on separate occasions
• holding that the appellant must show the denial prejudiced his defense
• explaining that the defendant must show denial of continuance “prejudiced his defense” and “establish the substance of the witness testimony he could have obtained with more time”
• in reviewing whether a state trial judge should have sua sponte conducted a competency hearing, a federal court may consider only the evidence that was before the trial judge
• in reviewing whether a state trial judge should have sua sponte conducted a competency hearing, a federal court may consider only the evidence that was before the trial judge
• “To reverse a trial court’s denial of a continuance, an appellant must show that the denial prejudiced his defense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).