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Assaults On The Exclusionary Rule: Good Faith Limitations And Damage Remedies, Pierre J. Schlag
Assaults On The Exclusionary Rule: Good Faith Limitations And Damage Remedies, Pierre J. Schlag
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Estelle V. Smith: The Constitutional Contours Of The Forensic Evaluation, Christopher Slobogin
Estelle V. Smith: The Constitutional Contours Of The Forensic Evaluation, Christopher Slobogin
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
In Estelle v. Smith,' the United States Supreme Court recognized for the first time that an evaluation of a criminal defendant by a mental health professional may implicate both the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination and the Sixth Amendment right to counsel. The issues raised in Estelle are significant not only for the legal profession but also for those in the mental health professions who perform "clinical" evaluations for the criminal courts. Estelle involved the case of Ernest Smith, who was sentenced to death by a Texas jury in 1974. Prior to trial, the judge ordered a psychiatrist, Dr. Grigson, …