PINCKNEY

v.

PENNSYLVANIA

Citator

Cited By

• Hill v. State, 473 So. 2d 1253 (Fla. 1985)
  …at no hearing on mental capacity was properly requested and that the evidence did not necessitate a hearing. People v. Robinson, 22 Ill.2d 162, 174 N.E. 2d 820 (1961). The United States Supreme Court denied certiorari review. Robinson v. Illinois, 368 U.S. 857, 82 S.Ct. 97, 7 L.Ed.2d 55 (1961). The defendant subsequently filed a post-conviction petition for habeas corpus in the United States District Court. The petition was denied without a hearing and the United States Circuit Court of Appeals reversed…
• Davidson J. James v. Singletary, 957 F.2d 1562 (11th Cir. 1992)
  …t following the Illinois Supreme Court’s rejection of his allegation on direct appeal that the trial judge had committed error by failing to hold a competency hearing. People v. Robinson, 22 Ill.2d 162, 174 N.E. 2d 820, 823 (Ill.1961), cert. denied, 368 U.S. 857, 82 S.Ct. 97, 7 L.Ed.2d 55 (1962). Significantly, Robinson did not raise, and the Supreme Court did not consider, a substantive claim of actual incompetency. Looking solely to the facts available to the trial judge, the Court ordered the district…

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• United States ex rel. Theodore Robinson v. Pate, 345 F.2d 691 (7th Cir. 1965)
  …the petition relied upon the record and transcript of the murder trial without a jury in the Criminal Court of Cook County in 1959, and the opinion of the Supreme Court of Illinois in People v. Robinson, 22 Ill.2d 162, 174 N.E. 2d 820, cert. denied 368 U.S. 857, 82 S.Ct. 97, 7 L.Ed.2d 55 (1961). Robinson’s petition alleges that he was denied due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment at his bench trial by the State’s failure to prove beyond a reasonable doubt his sanity at the time of the alleged m…