Zack has spent the better part of two years in a locked psychiatric facility awaiting trial. He feels ill from the medicine they make him take, he doesn't recognize the man that they say is his attorney and now he cannot remember his full name. At this point what is Zack's most important legal issue at trial?
a. His forced treatment and medicine
b. Mental competency
c. Compulsory process
d. adequate legal representation
b
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