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The Bravo Docket

Competency - What Does it Mean? Pt II

The Bravo Docket

Cesie and Angela

Tv & Film, Entertainment News, Tv Reviews, News

4.72.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

We're picking up where we left off - answering what it means to be found competent to stand trial. This episode focuses on the arguments Tom's defense counsel made on why he should be found incompetent to stand trial and we get into the difference between competency and the insanity defense, with references to Mob Wives, the Sopranos, a few serial killers and an insanity defense that actually worked for Lorena Bobbitt.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

In reality television, the people are represented by two separate but equally obsessed attorneys.

0:06.4

This is their podcast.

0:18.8

Hi, I'm Sessie, and I'm Angela, and this is the Bravo Docket.

0:24.6

Hey everyone, welcome back to the Bravo Docket.

0:27.4

We're going to pick up where we left off, which is talking about Tom Durerty's competency hearing.

0:32.1

We're talking about the competing experts, so the defenses side and the government side,

0:37.6

and what those experts found when they analyze Tom. We'll dive right in in a second,

0:41.8

but before that, I want to remind everyone that we are hosting a Get Together, the weekend of

0:46.0

Bravo Con in Las Vegas. I'll put the event bright link in the episode description again.

0:52.4

That's going to be Saturday, November 4th. It's an informal event, just a Get Together,

0:58.3

where we can say hello, hang out with everyone. If you can register in the event bright link,

1:03.5

that would be great, just so we can get an accurate head count. You do not need a ticket to attend.

1:08.6

You do not need to register to attend. It's just for our own benefit. But yeah, I'll put that

1:13.1

again in the episode description. All right, well, let's dive in. After the defense expert and

1:18.4

the prosecution experts evaluated Tom and put their findings into report, both sides started

1:25.3

challenging the evidence used by the experts as well as the opponent's experts themselves.

1:31.5

And this is very common in all litigation, you hire experts. They look at the evidence,

1:36.4

they come up with a report, you submit it, and the other side challenges it, whether that's

1:40.0

in a criminal case or a civil case, very common battle of the experts. So one of the experts,

1:44.8

the government wanted to keep out was a defense expert that was a criminal defense attorney.

1:52.4

I thought this was interesting, because I had never heard of this being used before in a competency

1:57.1

hearing, but she's a practicing criminal defense attorney, but not counsel of record for Gerardi,

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