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I was recently asked to appear on the Celebrity Court with Elizabeth Kelly to comment on Larry Flynt’s opposition to the execution of Joseph Paul Franklin – the man that shot and paralyzed him in an assassination attempt in 1978....

How many cases have I seen where the government proclaims that because my client’s IQ is not 70 or below, my client can understand the court proceedings, knew what he was doing at the time of the commission of the...

Yesterday, an open letter was sent by the Autobee family to George Brauchler, the DA in Douglas County, who is pursuing the death penalty against the killer of their son. After receiving a well-thought-out open letter begging to end this 11...

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...

Professor Steven Drizin, J.D., is the Legal Director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions and Associate Director of the Bluhm Legal Clinic at Northwestern Law.  He kicked off Day Two of the Mental Health Law Forum stating that a study...

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...