Forensic psychiatry & mental health law

Psychiatry & Law Radar

Thu 10 SepCASE

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UNITED STATES V. MATTHEW FRAZIER

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Mental illness is not the same as lack of competency, and there was no evidence of a change in his mental illness that called into question the continued validity of the prior competency determination that assessed the impact of that mental illness.

7th Cir. · affirmed

Whether a defendant's report of ongoing hallucinations at a jury-waiver colloquy required a sua sponte second competency hearing.

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10966087/united-states-v-matthew-frazier/