Richard Vatz

Competency to stand trial and the mother who killed her children

Competency to stand trial and the mother who killed her children

“Competency to stand trial,” hundreds of years old in Anglo-Saxon criminal justice, is considered fundamental as a concept, but is unwieldy in practice.  Everyone agrees that if a person truly does not understand the charges faced and literally cannot help his counsel in defense, there is a basic unfairness inherent in the process.  

The Mosbys: Another low point for Baltimore

The Mosbys: Another low point for Baltimore

By Richard E. Vatz There are a few characteristics necessary to doing any job well, but one might say in particular, for politically administering a city, intelligence, judgment and intellectual honesty are critical. The city of Baltimore has been bereft in its...

Opinion: Discrimination against conservatives ignored in higher education generally and at Towson University specifically

Opinion: Discrimination against conservatives ignored in higher education generally and at Towson University specifically

Supreme Court Justice Alito in his warning that in academia there is a level of intolerance that leads to “harassment and intolerance [of law school students] if they say anything that departs from the law school orthodoxy” is equally true of conservative faculty and students at public colleges and universities throughout the United States, as well as my own Towson University.

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