It is not surprising that generally 55% of all inmates in the United States suffer from some type of mental health issue, and at the same time roughly 5% of all adult American suffer from a serious mental illness. This was front page news in today’s Wall...
Brockton D. Hunter, a formidable defense attorney, former U.S. Army Recon Scout, now focuses his busy criminal defense practice on defending psychologically injured veterans in the criminal courts. He also led the passage of Minnesota’s Veterans’ Sentencing Mitigation Act and briefed the Obama Presidential Transition...
Dr. Michael First is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University, a Research Psychiatrist at the Biometrics Department at the NY State Psychiatric Institute and maintains a private practice in Manhattan. He is internationally recognized as the expert on psychiatric diagnoses and assessment. He...
Veteran criminal defense lawyer John Philipsborn presented a toolbox for presenting and cross- examining mental health experts. It is the common experience of criminal defense lawyers that government experts tend to state their conclusions in a way that don't allow you to examine how they...
Dr. Thomas Grisso, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Psychology and the Director of the Law-Psychiatry Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Dr. Grisso is the man. He is the grandfather of all that is competency. He created the screening tools and...