Sentence examples for competent to defend from inspiring English sources
A military judge found Hasan competent to defend himself, which means he could end up questioning his victims directly.
Mr. Spencer said that after meeting with Mr. Schallenberger a day earlier, he believed his client was competent to defend himself and understood the charge.
Dr. Michael B. First, editor of DSM-IV, the American Psychiatric Association handbook used to make diagnoses, said in an interview that determining when people with paranoid beliefs are competent to defend themselves is a complex matter.
An appeals court ruled that the former dictator was not mentally competent to defend himself against charges that he covered up for a death squad held responsible for kidnappings and executions of dissidents in 1973.
A month after finding Zacarias Moussaoui competent to defend himself against charges that he conspired with the Sept. 11 terrorists, the judge who will preside at his trial has opened the possibility of reversing that decision.
Any ruling that Mr. Moussaoui is not competent to defend himself could also open the door to the possibility that he could be found not competent to stand trial.
"No one benefits when an innocent person goes to jail because the state failed to provide a competent lawyer to defend them," Stoughton said, citing recent cases of wrongful conviction.
Paternalism is increasingly difficult to defend when treating competent patients and has eventually become a dysphemism, indicating an emergent taboo of questioning autonomy.
5) PPPs must only be pursued by competent, well-prepared governments with the ability to defend the public interest in contract negotiations, monitoring and contract enforcement.
A federal judge has granted Dylann Roof's request to defend himself against hate crime charges in court after finding that he's mentally competent to stand trial, the Charleston Post and Courier reports.
