The trial judge erred, the appeals court said, in not holding a competency hearing on this point.
In March 2002, the judge held a competency hearing, considered additional psychiatric evidence, and (in April) found that Edwards, while "suffer[ing] from mental illness," was "competent to assist his attorneys in his defense and stand trial for the charged crimes". Id., at 114a. 3. Third Competency Hearing: April 2003.
For most of the last 50 years, the process has been little more than a formality as 107 people have been executed in California since 1950 and only once, in 1951, were enough doubts raised to hold a mental competency trial.
Gilberto Hinojosa, the chairman of the Texas Democratic Party, publicly questioned Mr. Head's "mental competency to hold elected office".
To assist in planning formal education programs this study aimed to identify the competencies held by healthcare professionals that were perceived by health service management colleagues to enhance teamwork.
And all the other competencies that we hold dear as Cornellians, too.
And, in April 2003, the court held yet another competency hearing.
Even in the late Twentieth century, some authorities held extrinsic factors (competency, aesthetics, tradition, didactics, accepted paradigms, and history of practice) to be paramount ("taxonomy is an art and taxonomists are thus artists") [[ 123], p.428].
The EU has held the major competency over food policy for decades, from trade to tariffs and food safety to security.
The EU has held the major competency over food policy for decades, from food safety to security and trade to tariffs.
