Flemings v. Dinkins
Flemings v. Dinkins, Mayor of the City of New York
Flemings v. Dinkins, 498 U.S. 818 (1990)
Opinion of the Court
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C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied.
How later courts describe this case
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(trial court may order a defendant to submit to a psychiatric examination even before the defendant asserts an insanity defense)
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(if state forced to wait nearly one year to conduct mental status examination, it would have little or no persuasive weight on issue of defendant’s mental condition at time of trial)
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