exoneration is when a citizen is returned to the state of the crime to stand trial.
exoneration is when a citizen is returned to the state of the crime to stand trial.
when a citizen is returned to the state of the crime to stand trial?
exoneration
following her extradition to arizona to stand trial, pamela phillips was held on $5 million bond at the pima county jail. in december 2011, she was initially ruled mentally incompetent for trial. in october 2012, she was ruled competent to stand trial after undergoing treatment at the jail.









































phillips' trial began in 2014 and lasted for seven weeks. prosecutors used similar evidence in her trial that was used to convict young. phillips was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy. like young, she was also sentenced to life in prison; she has no possibility for parole.









































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murder of gary triano
as justice breyer noted in his majority opinion for the court, the court's competency and self-representation cases "frame the question presented, but they do not answer it." a defendant who has a rational and factual understanding of the proceedings and who can rationally assist trial counsel is competent to stand trial. and a defendant who voluntarily and intelligently elects to stand trial without counsel—something he can only do if he is competent to stand trial to begin with—may do so. even so, the right of self-representation is not absolute, and standby counsel may be appointed to assist the "pro se" defendant in matters of procedure and courtroom decorum. the court came closest to answering the question presented by this case when it held that the standard for competency to stand trial and competency to plead guilty are the same, because the decision not to stand trial is "no more complicated than the sum total of decisions that a [represented] defendant may be called upon to make during the course of a trial." the crucial difference in "edwards", was that the "pro se" defendant "was" asking to proceed to trial without counsel. the difference, in other words, is the difference between the ability to end trial proceedings on one's own and the ability to conduct trial proceedings on one's own.
indiana v. edwards