DueProcess HabeasCorpus
Whether the Equal Protection and Due Process of Law Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, and the United States Supreme Court decision in Drope v. Missouri, 420 U.S. 162 (1975) prohibit a state court from convicting and sentencing a person who has been declared incompetent
QUESTION(S) PRESENTED Petitioner, Larry Doctley, was declared ia competent to proceed +o trial by the Third Sudsecial Circuit Court, Columbia County , Florida, and Was inveluntacily placed in the State Mental Hospital, Petitioner was thereafter removed from the State Mental Ass pital, forced +. 4thial, Convicted of first degree murder and armed Cobbery, and Sentenced to life IMDCisowment While fem aining under the order of iACompetency. 1) Whether the Eeual Protection and Due Process of Lau Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, Gad the United States Supreme Court decision in | Drope vs Missouri, ¥20 US, 162 (1975) prohibit a state Court from convicting and Sentencing Q . Person usho has been declared incompetent ? 2) Whether an invalid Procedural bar Can be 1M posed on an incompetent person to upheld An Unconstitutional Conviction? . i