Is there any case law in which a defendant has been found competent to stand trial?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from The People v. Medrano, F058754, No. VCF098960 (Cal. App. 2010):

Finally, People v. Samuel (1981) 29 Cal.3d 489 does not help defendant. In that case, "five court-appointed psychiatrists, three psychologists, a medical doctor, a nurse, and three psychiatric technicians testified on [defendant's] behalf. In addition, four psychiatric reports were admitted into evidence. Without exception, each witness and every report concluded that throughout the period during which the declarant observed the defendant, the latter was incompetent to stand trial." (Id. at pp. 497-498.) In contrast, here the evidence that defendant was incompetent to stand trial was not "persuasive and virtually uncontradicted" (id. at p. 506) and the trial court could reasonably reject the defense experts' opinion and conclude and that defendant was competent to stand trial.

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