Defendant pleaded guilty to second degree murder after undergoing repeated fitness examinations and periods of hospitalization to regain his competency. Having been alerted to defendant's possible incapacitation shortly after his arrest in 1984, the trial court eventually ordered three fitness examinations, and after finding that defendant was fit to proceed, the court accepted defendant's plea of guilty to murder in the second degree. A new examination was not required before...
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