Selected Competence-Related Rulings: Useful Lessons in Approaches To the Analysis of Competence

to Stand Trial

When researching the issue of competence to stand trial, attorneys will find only a few rulings containing enough detail to (1) supply useful information about judges’ views of the strengths and limitations of particular competence evidence or (2) point to what courts deem highly significant in arriving at a competence ruling. John Philipsborn shines a light on some of these helpful rulings.