Roger, Richard., & Love-Johansson, Jill Evaluating competence-based practice. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the law online December (2009), 37 (4) 450-460
Roger and his colleagues inquire about the measure and the error rate substantially exceeded its accuracy also, that Daubert guidelines have a lot of parts that include forensic practice that deal with the competency measure with the mental disorder at the time of the criminal act. They mention the R-Cras (Rogers Criminal Responsibility Assessment Scales) how it helps with the responsibility of crime. Then it includes the SIRS (Interview of Reported Symptoms) that happen with the mental disorders. In addition, it mentions ECST-R (Evaluation of Competency …show more content…
Theodore took the plea bargain that the prosecution offered just to keep the status about his mental health out. It states by some equally critical issue that defendant’s will go to great links to keep that hidden this presents a great challenge for the legal team dealing with a defendant that is mentally ill and does not agree. It also mentions the Dusky standard as a guideline to follow in judging competency that up held by the courts. It also states the “two-prong standard, but states varied in adopting the explicit-rationality component. The American Academy of Psychiatry and the law (AAPL) Practice Guideline on Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial.” Reisner, D., Andrew, Piel, Jennifer, & Makey, Miller Competency to Stand Trail and Defendants Who Lack Insight into Their Mental Illness Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law online March 2013, 41(1) 85-91; www.jaapl.org/content/41/1/85 Then it goes on inform read about waiving the insanity defense. State that in the following jurisdictions Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Washington, and Wyoming allows the court’s authority to enlist the insanity defense on a criminal