The Sell decision may result in __________.

A. increased use of the incompetency defense
B. people coming to trial whose trials had been delayed by incompetency issues
C. less use of expert witnesses in determining competency
D. treatment in private rather than public psychiatric hospitals for those who have been declared incompetent


Answer: B

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