What Constitutional Standards should be applied when a judge is tasked with determining the competency of a defendant with known physical and mental ailments, and what role should a 'next friend' petition play in ensuring the defendants rights to due-process, equal-protection

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED a 1. What Constitutional Standards should be applied when a judge is tasked with determining the competency of a defendant with known physical and mental ailments, and what role should a "next friend" petition play in ensuring the defendants rights to due process and. equal protection? , 2. Under the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable : ‘ searches, and in light of Artitle 3's jurisdictional provisions, . “should a defendant be allowed to file a 2255 motion on behalf of : their co-defendant, when the defendant was charged with: the fruits obtained from an illegal search of the co-defendants. apartment? .