“Does he understand the consequences of his actions? That is a huge part of what we’re talking about,” said Denis Keyes, a College of Charleston special education professor who studies mental competency of suspects; he isn’t involved in the Hernandez case. If Hernandez behaves and thinks more like a child than an adult, Keyes said, “then he will never fully understand the importance that goes with the Miranda warnings.”
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