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Record W2124201938

Competence to stand trial should require rational understanding.

2011· article· en· W2124201938 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Alan R. Felthous

Bibliographic record

VenuePubMed · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicFree Will and Agency
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRationalityIrrational numberSupreme courtLawCompetence (human resources)PsychologyNinthPolitical scienceSocial psychologyMathematics
DOInot available

Abstract

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Rationality is explicit in the United States Supreme Court's Dusky standard but not in most U.S. CST standards. It is hard to imagine that the legal purposes of competency to stand trial (CST) determinations are served if a defendant's understanding of the proceedings is irrational (e.g., delusional or psychotically confused) or if the defendant cannot consult rationally with counsel. Most insanity tests include a rationality criterion. In United States v. Timmins, the Ninth Circuit emphasized the importance of rationality in CST in an opinion that also illustrated that the district court applied the federal standard, which does not mention rationality, without considering rationality. With its recent decision in Panetti v. Quarterman, the United States Supreme Court now requires rational understanding for competence to be executed. If there had been any doubt that unqualified understanding is not invariably taken to mean rational understanding by trial and appellate courts, the legal history of Panetti now dispels this misapprehension. The time is ripe for recognition of a uniform standard of CST that requires rationality.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.018
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.052
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.018
Threshold uncertainty score0.093

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0180.052
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0040.019
Scholarly communication0.0060.006
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0110.010
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.004

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.468
GPT teacher head0.286
Teacher spread0.182 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2011
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