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172332P.pdf   04/24/2018  Manuel Camacho  v.  Wendy Kelley
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  17-2332
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas - Fayetteville   
[PUBLISHED] [Erickson, Author, with Wollman and Shepherd, Circuit Judges] Prisoner case - Habeas. In a state criminal prosecution in which Camacho pleaded guilty to Accomplice to Murder and received a life sentence, the district court did not err in determining that Camacho's lawyers were not ineffective in allowing him to plead guilty without first seeking an evaluation to determine whether he was competent to enter the plea in light of an earlier report that noted that Comacho suffered from PTSD with accompanying frontal lobe disorder; the lawyers were correct in their assessment that the diagnosis was insufficient, standing alone to establish a lack of fitness to proceed to trial or enter a plea; their assessments were buttressed by their observations of Camacho before and during trial; taken as a whole, the evidence was insufficient to establish a reasonable probability that Comacho would have been found incompetent to proceed, and Comacho could not, therefore, establish prejudice