NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Oct. 23 -- Tulane University Law School issued the following news release:

An article by law Professor David Katner that contends that young children should be presumed incompetent to stand trial--rather than the current presumption that they are all competent-- in delinquency cases was cited by the West Virginia Supreme Court in a decision that will extend the right to challenge competency to juveniles using the law that applies to adult defendants.

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