WISCONSIN

v.

MITCHELL

Citator

Cited By

• Godinez v. Moran, 509 U.S. 389 (U.S. 1993)
  …g guilty or waiving the right to counsel is higher than the competency standard for standing trial is a question that has divided the Federal Courts of Appeals5 and state courts of last re [*396] sort.6 We granted certiorari to resolve the conflict. 506 U. S. 1033 (1992). II A criminal defendant may not be tried unless he is competent, Pate v. Robinson, 383 U. S. 375, 378 (1966), and he may not waive his right to counsel or plead guilty unless he does so “competently and intelligently,” Johnson v. Zerbst, 3…
• Wisconsin v. Mitchell, 508 U.S. 476 (U.S. 1993)
  …817.3 We granted certiorari because of the importance of the question presented and the existence of a conflict of authority [*483] among state high courts on the constitutionality of statutes similar to Wisconsin's penalty-enhancement provision,4 506 U. S. 1033 (1992). We reverse. Mitchell argues that we are bound by the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s conclusion that the statute punishes bigoted thought and not conduct. There is no doubt that we are bound by a state court’s construction of a state statute. B.…
• United States v. Lopez-Iraeta, 129 F.3d 1206 (11th Cir. 1997)
  …F. 3d 1468, 1474 (2d Cir.1995). In short, the doctrine “excludes from the definition of ‘statements’ under § 1001 mere exculpatory denials made during government investigations.” United States v. Barr, 963 F. 2d 641, 645-6 (3d Cir.), cert. denied, 506 U.S. 1033, 113 S.Ct. 811, 121 L.Ed.2d 684 (1992) (internal quotations omitted). In Paternostro v. United States, 311 F. 2d 298 (5th Cir.1962), this court’s predecessor became the first federal circuit court to recognize this doctrine, holding that an “ ‘excu…