mentally unfit• What if the patient is mentally unfit or is a terminally illminor?• But more alarmingly, a planned fraudtrial was scrapped because Burke was deemedmentally unfit to appear in the dock.• The judgeruled that he was mentally unfit to be tried.• Finally, there is a group of patients who are considered mentally unfit to make decisions concerning themselves.• Her 80-year-old husband, Harry, had been declaredmentally unfit to stand trial.