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Evidence Hearsay: Allow The Admission Of Medical Reports As Nonhearsay, Heather Browning
Evidence Hearsay: Allow The Admission Of Medical Reports As Nonhearsay, Heather Browning
Georgia State University Law Review
The Act allows reports by medical or mental health practitioners to be admitted into evidence at trial as nonhearsay, provided the party intending to introduce the report gives the opposing party sixty days notice. The report will not go out with the jury as documentary evidence.
Attorneys' And Judges' Needs For Continuing Legal Education On Mental Disability Law: Findings From A Survey, Douglas Mossman Md, Marshall B. Kapp Jd, Mph
Attorneys' And Judges' Needs For Continuing Legal Education On Mental Disability Law: Findings From A Survey, Douglas Mossman Md, Marshall B. Kapp Jd, Mph
Faculty Articles and Other Publications
Attorneys leave law school with limited knowledge and skills
concerning the issues that arise in mental disability law. Yet
psychiatrists and psychologists are appearing with increasing
frequency as witnesses in the nation's courts, and more attorneys
and judges can therefore expect to have to deal with testimony from
mental health professionals. To our knowledge, this article is the
first published assessment of practicing attorneys' and judges'
needs for continuing legal education (CLE) on mental disability
issues.
The 267 Dayton-area attorneys and 41 southwestern Ohio judges
who responded to our mailed survey said that one-seventh of their
cases raise issues related …
What's Competence Got To Do With It: The Right Not To Be Acquitted By Reason Of Insanity, Justine A. Dunlap
What's Competence Got To Do With It: The Right Not To Be Acquitted By Reason Of Insanity, Justine A. Dunlap
Faculty Publications
An acquittal by reason of insanity is sufficiently adverse and is in many ways more akin to a conviction than to an outright acquittal. Although not technically punishment, it involves substantial infringement of rights. The legal literature has devoted significant space to the issue of a criminal defendant’s competence to stand trial and to the issue of the insanity plea. The problem of a pretrial insanity acquittal of an incompetent defendant, on the other hand, has not been extensively examined. In undertaking that task, this article will, in Part II, review the law and practice of competency determinations. Part III …
Questioning The Questionnaires: Bar Admissions And Candidates With Disabilities, Stanley S. Herr
Questioning The Questionnaires: Bar Admissions And Candidates With Disabilities, Stanley S. Herr
Villanova Law Review
No abstract provided.