United States First Circuit

A competency hearing must be held in accordance with 18 USC 4241(e) before proper entry of a guilty plea to the charge of re-entering the United States after deportation when initial examination concluded defendant was incompetent.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/12/2000
• Published 12/12/2000

Judges

• COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge, and STAHL, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Terrance J. McCarthy, by Appointment of the Court, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Terrence P. Donnelly, Assistant U.S. Attorney, with whom Margaret E. Curran, United States Attorney, was on brief for appellee.