Wilbur P. Bolius v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Department of Offender Rehabilitation, State of Florida

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• discounting trial counsel’s testimony at a retrospective competency hearing that his client was competent when his client entered a guilty plea because of the ethical dilemma counsel would have faced had he testified his client was not competent
• discounting trial counsel's testimony at a retrospective competency hearing that his client was competent when his client entered a guilty plea because of the ethical dilemma counsel would have faced had he testified his client was not competent
• district court may rely on coherent answers by the defendant at the state proceedings
• “[T]he mere presence of mental illness or other mental disability at the time [the defendant] entered his plea does not necessarily mean that he was incompetent to plead . . . .”
• Dusky standard applies in state court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).