Office of Defender Services
TRAINING BRANCH
- Recognizing Mental Disorders and Cognitive Deficits
by Lyn McRainey, PhD, Senior Psychological Examiner, Nashville, TN; and Caryll S. Alpert, Assistant Federal Public Defender, M.D. TN
- 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
- 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)