Criminal Trials and Mental Disorders

insanity defense myths, Colorado v. Connelly, de facto mental health care system, conditional release and release revocations, the insanity defense and variations, functional test, Miranda rights, risk assessments, outpatient community treatment, forensic mental health evaluations, abolition of the insanity defense, indefinite length of stay, American Law Institute Model Penal Code test, Indiana v. Edwards, Miranda v. Arizona, correctional facility placements, mental disorders and violence, Dusky v. United States, categorical incompetence, right to a jury, standard of proof, federal test, trauma and stressor-related disorders, clear and convincing evidence, criminal justice system, irresistible impulse test, therapeutic jurisprudence, insanity defense, competence to waive the right to an attorney, impact of mental disorders, absence at trial, law enforcement discretion, mental disorders and criminal behavior, bona fide doubt, forensic mental health assessments, Jones v. United States, obtaining experts for indigent defendant, psychodynamic models, actus reus, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooter, sleep-walking defense, burden of proof, criminal proceedings, judicial hearings, mental disorder myths, presumption of incompetence, Gabrielle Giffords Shooting, Jackson v. Indiana, Sell v. United States, indicators of malingering, malingering, competence to confess, Medina v. California, The Unabomber, Durham rule, competency to stand trial, present mental capacity, treatment over objection, competence to testify, criminal trial proceedings, broken window approach, deific decree defense, second evaluations, reporting requirements, forensic mental health assessment process, Cooper v. Oklahoma, history of irrational behaviour, dissociative disorders, scope of expert’s assistance, Long Island Rail Road Shooter, automatic commitment, battered spouse/child defense, sua sponte, personality disorders, competence to plead guilty, criminal justice system alternatives, neurocognitive disorders, shifting/raising burden of proof, antisocial personality disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorders, Boston Marathon Bombing, consult with assist attorney, Montana v. Egelhoff, psychiatric facility placements, Clark v. Arizona, insanity acquittee post-trial dispositions, nonadversarial team approach, standards for establishing competence, bipolar disorders, initial evaluation request, assessing malingering, justification versus excuse, mental health courts, correctional facility evaluations, Foucha v. Louisiana, impact of medication, demeanor at trial, fair and just trials, Pate v. Robinson, crisis intervention teams, evaluation locations, competence to represent oneself, Godinez v. Moran, evaluator qualifications, guilty but mentally ill verdict, Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping, psychotic disorders, clinical mental health evaluations and treatment, Virginia Tech Shooter, depressive disorders, amnesia, incompetent to stand trial, Drope v. Missouri