COMPETENCE HEARING

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hearing to determine legal capacity (to determine whether the defendant can understand the charges and cooperate with a lawyer in preparing a defense)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("competence hearing" is a kind of...):

hearing ((law) a proceeding (usually by a court) where evidence is taken for the purpose of determining an issue of fact and reaching a decision based on that evidence)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

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