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Powell: a competency inquiry as a procedural safeguard
A prisoner's psychiatric report put the district court on notice of possible incompetence; the court abused its discretion by not inquiring; reversed
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What the record says
Worldwide register by region (Batch 2) · Batch 16
- Jurisdiction / date
- US, 3d Cir. 2012
- Channel
- 4
- Mechanism
- COMPETENCY (civil) — contrary direction
- What is documented
- A prisoner's psychiatric report put the district court on notice of possible incompetence; the court abused its discretion by not inquiring; reversed
- Finding or status
- JUDICIAL (Powell v. Symons)
- Label
- VERIFIED; Rule 17(c) running protectively
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Reference and provenance
2012-US-3D-CIR-POWELL