Incompetence to Enter Plea: Challenge to Assistance of Counsel Fails
Author: Fred Cohen .
Source: Volume 15, Number 06, March/April 2014 , pp.87-87(1)
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Abstract:
A defendent claims that his lawyer allegedly provided constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel in allowing [the defendant] Hibbler’s “guilty” plea because counsel should have known Hibbler was incompetent to plead due to the powerful antipsychotic medications he was taking at the time.Keywords: Hibbler v. Benedetti, 693 F.3d 1140; competency evaluation
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