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139. Id. at 173. 140. Id. 141. Id. at 174 (emphasis in original). 142. Id. 143. Id. 144. Id. at 176. 145. Id at 176–77. 146. S. 210 (1990). 40 Criminal Competencies and Riggins v. 149 The Court considered each of these separately.
Ct. 2842 (2007), reversing Panetti v. Dretke, 448 F. 3d 815 (5th Cir. 2006). 7. Id. at 28 57–63. 25 26 Criminal Competencies A. COMPETENCY TO STAND TRIAL 1. The Determination of Competency a. 13 The primary purpose of the rule was, under all theories, to “safeguard the accuracy of adjudication,”14 and as early as 1899 a federal court of appeals held that it was “not ‘due process of law ’ to subject an insane person (sic) to trial upon an 8. This section is largely adapted from 4 Michael L. 3 (2d ed.
2d 1370, 1372 (Mass. App. 83 c. 85 whose refusal to plead not guilty by reason of insanity is indicative of “grievous detachment from reality ”). , Noland v. Dixon, 831 F. Supp. C. 3d 328 (4th Cir. 1995). 78. People v. S. 2d 474, 477 (1974). See also, Bundy v. 2d 1402 (11th Cir. 1988), cert. S. 1034 (1989); Nowitzke v. State, 572 So. 2d 1346 (Fla. 1990). 79. State v. Johnson, 527 P. 2d 1310, 1312 (Wash 1974) (quoting State v. Dodd, 70 Wash. 2d 302, 303, cert. S. 948 (1967)). 80. United States v.