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Model Legal Processes For Court Ordered Mental Health Treatment - A Modern Approach, Brian D. Shannon
Model Legal Processes For Court Ordered Mental Health Treatment - A Modern Approach, Brian D. Shannon
FIU Law Review
The United States Conference of Chief Justices and Conference of State Court Administrators established the National Judicial Task Force to Examine State Courts’ Response to Mental Illness in 2019. As part of its overall efforts, the National Judicial Task Force then partnered with the Equitas Project of Mental Health Colorado to appoint a select workgroup to develop model statutory language for court-ordered mental health treatment, emergency psychiatric intervention, medication over objection, and criminal matters involving persons with mental illness. This Model Legal Processes Workgroup included judges, psychiatrists, medical school professors, law professors, and others whose goal was to draft model …