Sentence examples for be deemed competent from inspiring English sources

A mentally retarded defendant can be found "not insane" and hence be deemed competent to stand trial and be convicted because he arguably understood the difference between right and wrong, as a child might understand that difference.

But Mr. Moshe, who at the time was in a psychiatric hospital until he could be deemed competent to stand trial, agreed to the interview and told Officer Baker that he remembered him from the standoff at the federal building.

A 2008 study of Philadelphia nursing homes found that staff were denying residents the right to vote based on their own assessment of capacity to vote, notwithstanding that Pennsylvania law does not require that voters be deemed competent to cast a ballot.

With a set age-limit, some incompetent individuals above the limit will unjustly be deemed competent and some competent individuals below the limit unjustly deemed incompetent.

Age limits for children to be deemed competent to decide on research participation have been studied: generally children of 11.2 years and above were decision-making competent, while children of 9.6 years and younger were not.

Using a non-compensatory method (residents had to be deemed competent in 4/6 stations), only 8/21 (38%%) of junior residents passed the exam, while 18/18 (100 %) of senior residents passed.

In most jurisdictions, the vast majority of defendants who are evaluated for adjudicative competency are deemed competent to proceed.

A court-ordered psychological exam found that he had psychological disorders, though he was deemed competent to stand trial.

He had been given a diagnosis of schizophrenia, but was deemed competent to agree to the plea deal, which makes him ineligible for parole or to appeal.

Prosecutors also have what Ms. Klausner called the unlikely option of deciding that the boy is incompetent to stand trial, detaining him in a psychiatric facility until he is deemed competent, and then trying him as an adult.

A man accused of slashing to death a psychologist on the Upper East Side was declared mentally unfit to stand trial on Tuesday and will be sent to a state psychiatric center until he is deemed competent for court.