Psychiatric Treatment and Competence to Stand Trial Evaluations

[摘要] ineffective assistance of counselcompetence to stand trialinvoluntary guilty pleaMere Presence of Psychiatric Symptoms and Medication is Not Sufficient to Establish Ineffective Assistance of Counsel for Attorney’s Failure to Pursue a Competence to Stand Trial EvaluationIn Bell v. Parish, 2021 U.S. App. LEXIS 21464 (6th Cir. 2021), the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that counsel was not ineffective in failing to pursue a trial competence evaluation because the client did not give counsel reason to doubt competency and it is not enough, without more, for the defendant to have previously been given the diagnosis of a mental illness and been prescribed medication.

[学科分类] 儿科学

[关键词] ineffective assistance of counsel;competence to stand trial;involuntary guilty plea