Sentence examples for right to competent from inspiring English sources

All defendants, rich or poor, have the right to competent legal counsel.

Most Americans know that defendants have a constitutional right to competent counsel.

Just as defendants have a right to a fair trial, citizens have a right to competent government.

Without setting specific new standards, the court restated a defendant's constitutional right to competent representation in cases in which a life is at stake.

Non-English speakers in these kinds of hearings "have a right to competent translation services" (as the Ninth Circuit, a federal appeals court, put it).

Ruling on the issue this year, the court concluded that while Texas law provided prisoners a right to a lawyer for habeas corpus appeals, that provision did not bestow a right to competent counsel.

But they did conclude that there is a "moral right" to allow competent and informed people to decide when their lives are no longer worth living.

European laws grant national governments the right to appoint "competent authorities" to award the ecolabel, which can then be used for marketing throughout the EU.

Richard Wetzel, general counsel for the Court of Criminal Appeals, said the court stayed the Beazley case and a handful of others while it reviewed whether the state constitution provided inmates with the right to have competent counsel during the habeas appeals process.

According to TMZ, judge James Dabney chided Heller and said he was "incompetent to practice law in California" and added that Lindsay either has to get another lawyer who knows what he's doing, or she has to come into court and waive her right to a competent California lawyer.

China had every right to build a competent military and its "so-called advanced weapons" under development were items that other countries already had, the commentary pointed out.