Ruben Portillo Chavez v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
SKOPIL, Circuit Judge:
The government has moved to expand the record to include the transcript of the competency and guilty plea proceedings held October 7, 1976. It also moves for rehearing based on the expanded record. Despite the government’s egregious and unexcused delay, we grant the motion and the petition.
The central issue on this appeal has always been whether Chavez was denied due process because the trial court failed to order, on its own motion, a hearing on Chavez’s competence to plead guilty. A showing that the October 7, 1976 proceeding included such a hearing and a judicial…
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