The South Carolina prison system has permitted the abuse of mentally ill inmates for at least the last ten years. The stories that have been documented about these inmates with serious mental illnesses are horrific. Mr. Laudman, a schizophrenic, intellectually disabled...
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...
Law Week Colorado Denver, Colorado Nearly 400 lawyers and psychologists from all over the world attended the first-of-its kind National Criminal Defense Forum on Forensic Mental Health and The Law earlier this month to hear authorities on a range of issues in...
Click HERE to see the photo galleries from the Forum at the Brown Palace and the Reception at Reilly Pozner LLP. Iris Eytan is a Partner at Reilly Pozner LLP. She practices Criminal Defense with an emphasis in mental health defenses....
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. Patricia A. Zapf, Ph.D., a Professor in the Department of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice brought to bear her many years of experience researching and performing competency examinations on individuals. She has worked on a variety...
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...