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HINNANT, PETITIONER

424 Mass. 900 (1997)

ARTHUR LEE HINNANT, petitioner.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

May 13, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence P. Murray (Henry F. Owens, III with him) for the petitioner.

Ellyn Lazar, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., LYNCH, O'CONNOR, FRIED, & MARSHALL, JJ.

MARSHALL, J.

The State of North Carolina seeks rendition of the petitioner, Arthur Lee Hinnant. As a result of a severe closed head injury with coma, Hinnant suffers from residual brain damage; a medical examiner has concluded that he is functionally incompetent. We are asked to decide whether his present incompetency requires a stay of the rendition proceedings until his competency is restored.

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