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...
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...
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...
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...
The First National Criminal Defense Forum on Forensic Mental Health and the Law is co-sponsored by Reilly Pozner LLP and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, there are attendees here from 42 states, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and...
We were honored to have the National Criminal Defense Forum on Forensic Mental Health and the Law opened with a keynote speech by Bob Perske. Mr. Perske has devoted his life to being an advocate for vulnerable people. He underscored...
The midday session of the National Criminal Defense Forum on Forensic Mental Health & the Law was led by the incredible Dr. Harold Bursztajn from Harvard Medical School. In addition to teaching, Dr. Bursztajn practices both forensic and clinical psychiatry. ...