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Dubrule: an unusual defense does not establish incompetence
"The mere fact that a pro se litigant espouses a far-fetched, or even bizarre, legal-defense theory is insufficient to clear the high hurdle for incompetency"
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What the record says
Worldwide register by region (Batch 2) · Batch 16
- Jurisdiction / date
- US, 6th Cir. 2016
- Channel
- 4
- Mechanism
- COMPETENCY (criminal) — contrary direction
- What is documented
- "The mere fact that a pro se litigant espouses a far-fetched, or even bizarre, legal-defense theory is insufficient to clear the high hurdle for incompetency"
- Finding or status
- JUDICIAL (JAAPL note on United States v. Dubrule)
- Label
- VERIFIED; the doctrinal counterweight to the Maryland and Richards rows
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Reference and provenance
2016-US-6TH-CIR-DUBRULE