Whether a Mentally Deficient Defendant is Entitled to a Competency Hearing or Mental Evaluation

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED Whether a Mentally Deficient Defendant is Entitled to a Competency Hearing or Mental Evaluation to Determine if the Defendant is in Fact Capable of Assisting Counsel in His/Her Own Defense Whether a Mentally Deficient Defendant is . Entitled to Effective Assistance of Counsel in All Stages of the Criminal Proceedings Whether a Mentally Deficient Defendant Received Due Process When’ Counsel Failed.to Request a Mental. Evaluation, or Competency Hearing Whether a Mentally Deficient Defendant has a ; Sixth Amendment. Right to. Effective. Assistance of . Counsel on Direct Appeal