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It also describes people found by a court to be incompetent to stand trial, or found in a criminal case to be insane.

A man accused of killing five people in a racially motivated shooting rampage was deemed today to be incompetent to stand trial.

Why should we assume that the new mayor will be incompetent to govern and unable to build an effective administration, even temporarily?

Although judges have long been attuned to the difficulty of trying mentally ill defendants, there is little recognition that people may be incompetent to stand trial because of their age.

Lawyers for the defendant, Wadih El-Hage, had presented evidence to the judge that their client was being treated so harshly in jail after two of his co-defendants were accused of stabbing a guard that Mr. El-Hage was complaining of memory loss and might be incompetent to stand trial.

Suppose that a woman is in the earliest stages of Alzheimer's disease, and she recognizes that there will come a point where she is in a demented state and will thus be incompetent to make autonomous or informed decisions about her treatment.

Secular haunted houses are incompetent to address these dangers.

"We are incompetent to solve the times," Emerson once said.

Your article may lead women to believe that many pathologists are incompetent to diagnose breast specimens.

The problem is that people view the Palestinian Authority as being incompetent to do anything.

It is especially important when patients are incompetent to give informed consent.