Legal Opinion
United States v. Byron Dubois Collins
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 26, 1991No. 90-2485PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAUER, Chief Judge.
The single issue presented by this appeal is whether the district court erred in failing to hold a competency hearing pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 4241(a) (1988) before accepting Defendant Collins’s plea of guilty to bank robbery. Because we determine the district court did not have reasonable cause to believe the defendant was incompetent, it was not required to hold a hearing. We, therefore, affirm.
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On February 13, 1989, federal agents arrested Byron DuBois Collins, pursuant to a duly executed warrant, for the robbery of the Illiana Federal Credit Union in Calumet City,…
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