Competency for Trial: The Making of an Expert

ARTHUR HARRIS ROSENBERG and A. LOUIS McGARRYAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 128, Number 9

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1092

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The authors' four-year examination of the competency for trial issue in Massachusetts suggests that neither the psychiatric nor the legal profession in the state is currently able to deal satisfactorily with the issue. lt is likely that overburdened judges will continue to delegate decision making on the competency isssue to psychiatrists; therefore the authors suggest the necessity for special forensic training and experience so that they may responsibly produce expert opinions on the subject.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 128 • Number 9 • March 1972

Pages: 1092 - 1096

PubMed: 5060824

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Published in print: March 1972

Published online: 1 April 2006

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ARTHUR HARRIS ROSENBERG

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A. LOUIS McGARRY

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Director of Mental Health Programming, Office of Justice Administration of the City of Boston, and Associate in Psychiatry (Law), Laboratory of Community Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, 58 Fenwood Rd., Boston, Mass. 02115

Lecturer on Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Laboratory of Community Psychiatry, and State Director of Legal Medicine, Massachusetts Department of Mental Health

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Competency for Trial: The Making of an Expert

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