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The article discusses how courts can ensure that the testimony of children can be done in a way that promotes an efficient determination of truth. Topics include the need for lawyers to use different language, phrasing and sentence structure when questioning children, and the possible solutions found in the Utah Rules of Evidence like the use by judges of reasonable control and age-appropriate questioning of children in court.

The article discusses issues on how the U.S. Supreme Court should resolve the disputes over the involuntarily medication of incompetent defendants to allow them to stand trial.