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Competency Hearing

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A legal procedure to establish a person's ability to grasp the matter under adjudication and rationally pursue their own legal interests.

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Casey Anthony
Criminal
19-Mar-1986   Mother of Caylee Anthony
Jim Bakker
Religion
2-Jan-1939   Adulterous bisexual TV evangelist
David Berkowitz
Criminal
1-Jun-1953   Son of Sam killer
Rudolf Bing
Business
9-Jan-1902 2-Sep-1997 Manager of the NY Metropolitan Opera, 1950-72
Lorena Bobbitt
Criminal
1970   Severed husband's penis
Arthur Bremer
Assassin
21-Aug-1950   Shot Governor George Wallace
Ted Bundy
Criminal
24-Nov-1946 24-Jan-1989 Serial killer, blamed pornography
Jeffrey Dahmer
Criminal
21-May-1960 28-Nov-1994 Homosexual serial killer cannibal
John E. du Pont
Criminal
22-Nov-1938 9-Dec-2010 Lunatic, murdered wrestler David Schultz
Frances Farmer
Actor
19-Sep-1913 1-Aug-1970 Hollywood actress, institutionalized
Daniel J. Flood
Politician
26-Nov-1903 28-May-1994 Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1945-80
Larry Flynt
Business
1-Nov-1942   Publisher of HUSTLER
Squeaky Fromme
Assassin
22-Oct-1948   Attempted to assassinate Gerald Ford
John Wayne Gacy
Criminal
17-Mar-1942 10-May-1994 28 dead boys in his crawlspace
Ed Gein
Criminal
27-Aug-1906 26-Jul-1984 Serial killer and cannibal
Patty Hearst
Victim
20-Feb-1954   Kidnapped by SLA
Gary Heidnik
Criminal
22-Nov-1943 6-Jul-1999 Sex torturer, murderer
Rudolf Hess
Government
26-Apr-1894 17-Jul-1987 Deputy Fuhrer flew unauthorized to Scotland
John Hinckley
Assassin
29-May-1955   Shot President Reagan
Ted Kaczynski
Criminal
22-May-1942   The Unabomber
Earl Long
Politician
26-Aug-1895 5-Sep-1960 Three-time Governor of Louisiana
Jared Loughner
Assassin
10-Sep-1988   Tucson Safeway shooter
Charles Ng
Criminal
24-Dec-1960   On death row in California
Jose Padilla
Terrorist
18-Oct-1970   Convicted of conspiracy
Augusto Pinochet
Head of State
25-Nov-1915 10-Dec-2006 Overthrew Chile with CIA's help
Ezra Pound
Poet
30-Oct-1885 1-Nov-1972 The Cantos
Jack Ruby
Assassin
25-Mar-1911 3-Jan-1967 Killed Lee Harvey Oswald
Christopher Scarver
Criminal
c. 1969   Murdered Jeffrey Dahmer
Sirhan Sirhan
Assassin
19-Mar-1944   Assassin of Robert F. Kennedy
Valerie Solanas
Activist
9-Apr-1936 26-Apr-1988 Shot Andy Warhol
Richard Speck
Criminal
6-Dec-1941 5-Dec-1991 Killed eight student nurses
R. Allen Stanford
Business
24-Mar-1950   Stanford Financial Group
Lionel Tate
Criminal
30-Jan-1987   Florida's wrestling death teen
Tex Watson
Criminal
2-Dec-1945   Honor student turned to Manson Family
Aileen Wuornos
Criminal
29-Feb-1956 9-Oct-2002 Notorious serial killer
Andrea Yates
Criminal Defendant
2-Jul-1964   Drowned her five children




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