Sentence examples for make him competent from inspiring English sources

Because Mr. Bush was punctual, does that make him competent?

Next week, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case that centres on whether an insane defendant can be forcibly medicated to make him competent to stand trial.

He succeeded in having the safety issue put aside, but in 2002 the federal appeals court in St Louis ruled that he could be forcibly doped solely to make him competent to stand trial on the original fraud charges.

Instead of making him feel ashamed of his bad habits, they storm his domestic prison with humor and set him free into a new life, giving him the know-how to make him competent and confident.

The judge, Emmet G. Sullivan of United States District Court here, granted the government's request that Mr. Weston remain on the medication for 120 days in an effort to make him competent to stand trial.

But during six months spent with his family in New York he had hired a private tutor - a Dortmund fan, as it turned out - to make him competent in a language that was as unfamiliar to him as the Bundesliga, his new club and the players in his charge.

After each attack, he was deemed incompetent to stand trial, hospitalized, and then, when medication made him competent, found to have been insane at the time of the offense.

Nixon v. Shrink Missouri Government PAC upheld state limits on campaign contributions to state offices, and Sell v. United States imposed stringent limits on the right of a lower court to order the forcible administration of antipsychotic medication to an criminal defendant who had been determined to be incompetent to stand trial for the sole purpose of making him competent and able to be tried.

Russell E. Weston Jr., who was accused of killing two Capitol Police officers in July 1998, can be forced to take medication to make him mentally competent for trial on murder charges, a federal appeals court panel has ruled.

His situation has posed a question that the Supreme Court has agreed to answer: Can the government forcibly medicate a person charged with a nonviolent crime to make him mentally competent to stand trial?

Notably, in the habeas context, the court adheres to the view that "there is no intrinsic reason why the fact that a man is a federal judge should make him more competent, or conscientious, orlearned with respect to federal law than his neighbor in the state courthouse".