FRENCH

v.

BLACKBURN

Citator

Cited By

• Allen v. Illinois, 478 U.S. 364 (U.S. 1986)
  …za-Martinez, 372 U. S. 144, 168 (1963). Cf. Addington v. Texas, 441 U. S. 418, 428 (1979) (in Texas “civil commitment state power is not exercised in a punitive sense”); French v. Blackburn, 428 F. Supp. 1351, 1358-1359 (MDNC 1977), summarily aff’d, 443 U. S. 901 (1979) (State need not accord privilege against self-incrimination in civil commitment proceeding). Petitioner offers several arguments in support of his claim that despite the apparently nonpunitive purposes of the Act, it should be considered cri…
• Project Release v. Prevost, 722 F.2d 960 (2d Cir. 1983)
  …e resolved ‘in terms of required days, hours, or minutes, but should rather turn on the basis of the interests involved and fundamental fairness,’ ” 551 F.Supp. at 1306 (quoting French v. Blackburn, 428 F.Supp. 1351, 1355 (M.D.N.C.1977), aff’d mem., 443 U.S. 901, 99 S.Ct. 3091, 61 L.Ed.2d 869 (1979)); see also Morrissey v. Brewer, 408 U.S. 471, 481, 92 S.Ct. 2593, 2600, 33 L.Ed.2d 484 (1972) (“[D]ue process is flexible and calls for such procedural protections as the particular situation demands.”). In th…
• Holmes v. King, 709 F.2d 965 (5th Cir. 1983)
  …ot prohibit examination of an accused for the purposes of a routine competency determination. See Estelle v. Smith, 451 U.S. 454, 465, 101 S.Ct. 1866, 1874, 68 L.Ed.2d 359 (1981); French v. Blackburn, 428 F.Supp. 1351, 1358-59 (M.D.N.C.1977), aff’d, 443 U.S. 901, 99 S.Ct. 3091, 61 L.Ed.2d 869 (1979); cf. United States v. Leonard, 609 F. 2d 1163, 1165 n. 3 (5th Cir.1980) (no Fifth Amendment violation where any evidence concerning merits of defense can be suppressed). Eliciting responses from Holmes for purpo…