effective-advocacy

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5014 Phillip R. Durachinsky v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency-hearing critical-stages defense-counsel due-process effective-advocacy sixth-amendment Where defense counsel reasonably believes that their client may be incompetent, but the defendant disagrees, does the Sixth Amendment require a distri…