State v. Pollard

Defendant Monica Pollard, who pled guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to a term of fifty years to life imprisonment, appeals his conviction and sentence. We are called upon to review the trial court’s rulings that defendant was competent to plead guilty and to waive counsel. Upon review of the record, we conclude that there was insufficient support for the court’s competency determinations; accordingly, we reverse.

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Ón July 9,1985, defendant fatally stabbed a man in a department store in St. Albans, apparently, because the victim accused him of shoplifting a pair of shoes.…