Ms. Clarke told the judge she believed her client was competent to make the guilty plea.
And if you want to fight over taxes, hire someone competent to do it.
That is a job for governments, which remain competent to do it if they choose.
Yet she fully realizes that he is no longer competent to make financial decisions.
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Instead, they argue more over who is the more competent to preside over the current political dispensation.
"He seems highly competent to me, just a smart guy, " said Frank Dale, one of Harrington's neighbors.
Lots and lots of people with serious mental illness are nonetheless properly judged competent to stand trial.
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Despite evidence he suffered psychosis and hallucinations, he was found competent to be tried as an adult.
Upon graduation, the dental education community certifies that new dentists are competent to independently provide oral health care.
Even someone eventually judged not guilty by reason of insanity had previously been judged competent to stand trial.
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Earlier Tuesday, Judge Larry Alan Burns found Loughner competent to stand trial in a federal court in Tucson.
Pietz met Loughner in March 2011 and determined he had schizophrenia and wasn't competent to participate in court proceedings.
The medical treatment plan for Loughner was aimed at improving his mental state so he would be competent to stand trial.
McCoy said she has not yet decided whether to seek a hearing to determine whether Curtis is mentally competent to stand trial.
But the question arose about who was competent to make those decisions.
Allen Stanford was recently transferred (en route) to Butner federal prison after a judge ruled that he was not competent to stand trail.
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District Judge William Sylvester would want assurances from defense lawyers that Holmes is mentally competent to plead guilty and accept a life sentence with no parole, Steinhauser said.
Such treatments could have made him competent to stand trial.
Judge Carrie Panetta ruled that Mr Goh should be sent to a California mental institution until he is competent to stand trial, with a review every 90 days.
Consider: Is the gun owner competent to keep a weapon?
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Or are they not competent to use available resources efficiently?
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Making a grounded assessment requires us to understand who is making the promise, what action they are promising, and whether they are sincere and competent to fulfill their promise.
Unfortunately legal ethics generally permit all lawyers to claim to be competent to handle matters ranging from wills, divorces and traffic tickets to financial derivatives, hedge funds and soft-dollar trading.
It heard Dr Abdullah had told the hospital's consultant that she was competent to perform the appendix operation but initially had not realised she had taken out an ovary by mistake.
Mitt Romney became the Republican nominee because Herman Cain, the only true pro-growth candidate in the primary race that was actually competent to do the job of president, self-destructed over personal issues.
Unfortunately legal ethics generally say that all lawyers can claim to be competent to handle all matters from wills, divorces, traffic tickets, real estate closings to financial derivatives, hedge funds, and soft dollar trading.
It's the same thing if someone's got a driving licence, that driving licence says that you are competent to drive, but we know from the accident statistics a lot of people do not drive competently.
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