State mental health authorities will again review the competency of a Madison woman who allegedly killed her infant daughter last year after a doctor indicated that she may have regained the ability to assist in her own defense.

Ee Lee, 24, whose suspected abuse led to the July 11, 2007, death of her daughter, Anastasia Vang, was found in October to be incompetent to stand trial on a first-degree intentional homicide charge after doctors determined that mental retardation lay under the psychosis for which she was being treated.

But on Tuesday, prosecutors said they had received word from a doctor treating Lee that she may have regained competency to stand trial.

Assistant District Attorney Mary Ellen Karst had already asked Dane County Circuit Judge Daniel Moeser to order a competency examination for Lee after learning she was to be discharged from the Mendota Mental Health Institute to a group home for developmentally disabled people later this month.

On Monday, Karst told Moeser, she received a report from Dr. Gary Maier at Mendota indicating that it appears Lee has regained competency. Karst said the report indicates that Lee, who is Hmong, has been speaking fluent English and doesn't have the cognitive disability that had been diagnosed earlier.

After the diagnosis of mental retardation in October, Lee's case was put on what appeared to be permanent hold because it seemed extremely unlikely that she would ever regain competency to stand trial. That evaluation was completed by a different doctor at Mendota and not Maier.

Lee is also charged with first-degree reckless endangerment and two counts of child abuse in other incidents involving alleged abuse of her daughter.