We naturally trust people who listen, people who are mentallyalert to the moment as it unfolds rather than thinking forward to their weekend or reflecting back on the missteps of a morning meeting.
He was heavily sedated and on a ventilator at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, but was "alert, mentally competent and lucid" during the brief initial court appearance at his bedside on Monday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler found.