Sentence examples for competency to represent from inspiring English sources
Mr. Fisher, the Indiana solicitor general, said the standard for competency to represent oneself should require more, "that it is within the state's authority to override this right where the defendant cannot communicate coherently with the court or the jury".
The Indiana Supreme Court held that Mr. Edwards's competency to stand trial meant that he was competent to represent himself.
Instead, this study uses a sample of 11 competency frameworks selected to represent the diversity of existing youth worker competencies.
The lawyers also said that the Supreme Court had set a higher competency threshold for someone to represent himself than for simply standing trial represented by a lawyer.
No doubt the trial will raise a host of thorny issues, including expected questions regarding some defendants' competency to stand trial or to represent themselves, and whether a military commission may accept a guilty plea without a trial in a death penalty case.
Those competencies that were identified by more than 50% of the respondents were likely to represent the competencies thought most important by the respondent sample.
Thus, the results were expected to represent baseline competencies amongst health professionals who had already received public health training.
The judge said the Texas courts erred badly in the last week when they refused to hire mental health experts to determine whether Mr. Wood was mad or to appoint a lawyer to represent him at a competency hearing.
To represent and measure commercial competencies in the field of VET a test environment named ALUSIM was developed.
Three trainee cohorts were recruited to represent different levels of EBM competency.
