Legal Opinion
State v. Ford
Supreme Court of Kansas
Decided July 31, 2015No. 109806PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Luckert, J.:
Consistent with due process protections imposed by the United States Supreme Court, if a district court has a reason to believe a defendant is incompetent to stand trial, K.S.A. 22-3302 requires the court to suspend criminal proceedings and conduct a competency hearing. In 1992, a district court presiding over Harold Glen Ford, Jr.’s, criminal case—in proceedings we will refer to as Ford I—ordered and received a competency evaluation. But there is no record of a subsequent competency hearing. Yet the Ford I court did not suspend proceedings…
2Cases cited31 opinions
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- Medina v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
- Billy Keith McGregor v. Gary Gibson, Warden, Oklahoma State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2001
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3Cited by25 opinions
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