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MENTAL HEALTH

Video: Recognizing and Confronting Mental Health Issues by Shereen Charlick, Chief Trial Attorney, Federal Defenders of San Diego Tips for Persuasive Criminal Defense of Your Client Suffering from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder by Molly Lizbeth Roth, Assistant Federal Public Defender, W.D. TX Competency/Sanity in Federal Court: Strategic Considerations by Stephen P. McCue, Federal Public Defender, D. NM (discussing when to pursue the insanity defense and/or a finding of incompetency, and reviewing the mechanics involved in doing so) Forced Medication After U.S. v. Sell: Fighting Your Client's War on Drugs by Donna Lee Elm & Doug Passon, Assistant Federal Public Defenders, D. AZ Disorganized Crime:Learning Disability and the Criminal Justice System by Nancy Cowardin, Ph.D., Educational Diagnostics, Whittier, CA (this article was originally published in Criminal Justice, Summer 1998) Crimes of Innocence: Examining Transgressions of the Mentally Young Offender by Nancy Cowardin, Ph.D., Educational Diagnostics, Whittier, CA ADD on Trial: "Winning" Is Still Losing by Nancy Cowardin, Ph.D., Educational Diagnostics, Whittier, CA Recognizing and Confronting Mental Health Issues: Assessing and Understanding How Mental Retardation Affects Your Client and Your Case by Lyn McRainey, PhD, & Caryll S. Alpert, Assistant Federal Public Defender, M.D. TN Guide to Mental Health Mitigation by David Freedman, the Capital Resource Counsel Project and the Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel Mental Competency: Best Practices Model (National Judicial College)

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