United States Fourth Circuit

Summary judgment for respondent on petitioner's habeas petition is affirmed over claim that the trial court contravened petitioner's federally protected due process rights in determining his competency to stand trial.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/18/2007
• Published 05/18/2007

Judges

• Before MOTZ, TRAXLER, and KING, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  James Phillip Griffin, Jr., North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services, Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellant.  Mary Carla Hollis, North Carolina Department of Justice, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Roy Cooper, Attorney General of North Carolina, Clarence Joe DelForge, III, Assistant Attorney General, North Carolina Department of Justice, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.