Court Opinion

ID: 9445785
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 21:38:13.713373+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:30:24.520516
License: Public Domain

WILBUR K. MILLER, Circuit Judge
(concurring in the result in part, and dissenting in part).
I think it is fair to say appointed counsel moved for a mental examination because Lloyd would not talk to him about the cases, because he uses narcotics, because he had been repeatedly indicted, because he left home when he was 14, and because he has a scar on his head. This ought not to be enough to require a mental examination but it probably is under the terms of 18 U.S.C. § 4244. I reluctantly concur in this part of the result: that the cases should be remanded for a hearing as to mental competency when the plea of guilty was entered. If Lloyd is found to have been then competent, the sentences and judgments should stand. If not, then the District Court should vacate the sentences and judgments, after which Lloyd should be again arraigned; and if he properly pleads incompetency as of that time, he may have a hearing as to his then mental condition. I do not concur in the result insofar as the court’s opinion deals with the issue of effective assistance of counsel.