Staff reviewed
STATE OF LOUISIANA V. DE'ANDRUS LONG JR.
— STAFF
La. C. Cr. P. art. 641 defines mental incapacity to proceed in a single formulation applicable to all stages: “a defendant lacks the capacity to understand the proceedings against him or to assist in his defense.” There is no article in Louisiana law prescribing a separate competency-to-plead evaluation. We therefore cannot find error in the trial court’s decision not to order one.
La. Ct. App. · affirmed
Whether a filed but unordered request for a juvenile competency commission blocks divestiture of juvenile jurisdiction by indictment.
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