Opinion ID: 353179
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Competency Certification and the Second Messinger Report

Text: 87 Suggs was certified as competent on the basis of the Matteawan reports by Justice Schweitzer on April 9, 1969. He was reexamined pursuant to a special court order of April 30, 1969, by Dr. Messinger. The latter's one-page report on May 20, 1969, referred to his first examination in July, 1968, when the doctor did not find (Suggs) psychotic, but considered him to be a case of severe sociopathic personality disorder. Dr. Messinger now found Suggs calm, cooperative, cool and calculating, and oriented in all spheres . . . (with) an excellent memory both for recent and remote events. He also found that Suggs denies any delusions or hallucinations, and carefully considers the various alternatives open to him in facing his current charges. Dr. Messinger again diagnosed him as being of the Pathologic Personality Group, Emotionally Unstable Type, with paranoid and depressive tendencies.