The Science of the Mind: Litigating Mental Health in Criminal Cases (2016)
CLE Credit Hours: Up to 16 hours of self-study CLE credits, where authorized. Please confirm with your state's CLE commission to ensure this program is available for self-study CLE certification.
Program Summary: Whether it is insanity, incompetence, or impairment; mental health issues affect bail decisions, sentencing, and the chance of winning at trial. Understanding the current science and being able to use it can be the key to successful representation of a client. In this extensive 16-hour program, experts in the sciences and seasoned litigators with extensive experience representing mentally disabled or affected clients share their insights, knowledge, and understanding of mental health to assist you in helping your next client obtain a successful outcome. This program covers various aspects of mental health issues. Beginning with an in-depth review of the law from diminished capacity to insanity and mental retardation, you will learn about pharmacology, picking the best jury and getting them to care about your client, how to effectively cross-examine a variety of experts, and mitigation at sentencing.
Presentations Included:
1. Infinity Goes Up on Trial: Sanism, Pretextuality, and the Representation of Defendants with Mental Disabilities |Prof. Michael L. Perlin
2. Challenging the Confession of a Mentally Ill and Cognitively Disabled Client |Dr. Clarence Watson
3. The Pharmacology of Mental Health: Prescriptions, Affects and Forced |Dr. Michael A. Fuller
4. How Adolescent Brain & Behavioral Development Can Affect Competency, Culpability, and Other Determinations in Criminal Court |Cathryn S. Crawford
5. Veteran’s Mental Health |Brockton D. Hunter
6. Language Deficits & Impairments: Why They Matter |Prof. Michelle LaVigne
7. Crossing the State’s Expert in Competency |Dr. Demosthenes Lorandos
8. Crossing the Mental Health Expert in an NGI Case |Mindy Montford
9. Imaginative Uses with Diminished Capacity Defenses |Michael Laurence
10. Voir Dire in Mental Health Cases |Eric Davis
11. Crossing the Empathic Divide – Helping a Jury to Care About Your Client’s Mental Health Challenges |Andrea D. Lyon
12. Sentencing Mitigation with Mentally Ill Clients |Colette Tvedt
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Prices
- List Price $150.00
- Member Price $125.00