They are not looking for counsel; they both already have lawyers, highly competent ones appointed by federal judges.
Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, recently introduced legislation that set national standards to ensure that competent lawyers are appointed for capital defendants.
Though he had become vastly rich, he had appointed competent officials and made Balkh into one of Afghanistan's safer and more prosperous districts.
But key provisions would lessen the chance of unfairness and deadly error by making DNA testing available to both state and federal inmates, and by setting national standards to ensure that competent lawyers are appointed for capital defendants.
Among his suggestions: Make sure that competent receivers are appointed to run troubled properties, and set up a system in which government authorities are alerted when a building is in the limbo of a lengthy foreclosure proceeding.
"In order to maintain trust, credibility and legitimacy," the statement said, "there must be an open and transparent selection process which results in the most competent person being appointed as managing director, regardless of their nationality".
In Sheikh Mansour's short time pulling the City purse strings he has sacked one manager, the competent Mark Hughes, and appointed another, the suave Italian Roberto Mancini, who wears his blue-and-white scarf in an extremely fetching manner but has yet to prove that he is really up to the job.
The competent technocrats she appointed to economic ministries persuaded the International Monetary Fund to disburse a tranche of $400 million it had been withholding.
In 1933 Brian Sellers, a more competent amateur, was appointed and became the long-serving captain that Yorkshire had sought.
He clearly defined his government's priorities (health care, education, and infrastructure development); devoted significant financial resources to these priority areas; and appointed capable, competent ministers to head these departments.
