Competence Hearing

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a hearing to determine legal capacity i.e. to determine whether the defendant can understand the charges and cooperate with a lawyer in preparing a defense

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Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Competence Hearings
possessive: Competence Hearing's
pluralpossessive: Competence Hearings'

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