Sentence examples for rendered incompetent from inspiring English sources

MIAMI, Feb. 22 — In a highly unusual competency hearing in federal court here Thursday, defense lawyers began to lay out their argument that Jose Padilla, the Brooklyn-born former enemy combatant, was rendered incompetent to stand trial on terrorism conspiracy charges by what they characterize as crippling mistreatment by the government.

In 2000, represented by a new legal team, Green filed a request for a new trial on the basis of having been rendered incompetent by the psychiatric medications she was taking at the time of her hearings.

Her first request, which she eventually withdrew, was based on a claim of having been rendered incompetent for plea bargaining by the psychiatric medications she was taking at the time of her hearings; her second, which was denied by a judge, claimed that the evidence used to convict her of arson had been rendered obsolete by scientific advances.

Although in modern mammalian genomes most retrotransposon copies reflect ancient insertions rendered incompetent for future transposition, active members exist and promote genetic diversity by generating new insertions [ 10].

19 20 It is caused by distortion of the LV and papillary muscle geometry, displacing the mitral valve leaflets (MVL) below the plane of the MV annulus: when there is insufficient MVL area to compensate, the valve apparatus is rendered incompetent.

In essence, they say, the government rendered him incompetent to stand trial, a position the prosecution vehemently denies.

However, the program was a prototype, and lacked several capabilities that rendered it incompetent on current science.

Thank you for inadvertently talking about menstruation and maintaining the age-old superstition that periods render women incompetent.