How have the courts treated the issue of mental competence in this case?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from United States v. Mikhel, 889 F.3d 1003 (9th Cir. 2018):
The parties dispute whether the district court held a competency hearing in this case. We need not resolve that dispute and assume without deciding that no competency hearing occurred. For this reason, and because defense counsel never moved for a competency hearing,14 we pass to considering whether the district court plainly erred in failing to order a competency hearing sua sponte. See United States v. Dreyer , 705 F.3d 951, 960 (9th Cir. 2013).
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