Criminal
Aug. 23, 2012
Federal judge removed from criminal case involving dementia
U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips of Riverside has been removed from a case for failing to call for a competency hearing for a Southern California psychiatrist who slipped into dementia, a divided 9th Circuit panel held.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Tuesday faulted U.S. District Judge Virginia A. Phillips for her failure to call a competency hearing for a defendant with dementia and ruled that the case be reassigned to a new trial judge.
The panel reversed the Riverside-based Phillips and rebuked her for suggesting the defendant - a Southern California psychiatrist who slipped into dementia, exhib...
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