Law & Psychiatry
Instructor: Stan Goldman
Text: “Mental Health Proceedings in Massachusetts: A Manual for Defense
Counsel – 4th Edition” (Mass. Continuing Legal Education, Boston - 2009)
[“Manual”]
Supplemental material as noted
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Introduction to course & concepts of mental illness
Manual, p. 5
See also: http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/mentalhealth/chapter2/sec2.html
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mental_disorders
Voluntary admission to psychiatric facilities
Manual, § 2
Zinermon v. Burch, 494 U.S. 113 (1990)
Involuntary admission to psychiatric facilities – civil
Manual, § 3
Hashimi v. Kalil, 388 Mass. 607 (1983)
Newton-Wellesley Hosp. v. Magrini, 451 Mass. 777 (2008)
Commitment to psychiatric facilities – civil
Manual, §§ 4-10
Addington v. Texas, 441 U.S. 418 (1979)
Bournewood v. Baker, 431 Mass. 101 (2000)
Comm.. v. Nassar, 380 Mass. 908 (1980)
Humphrey v. Cady, 405 U.S. 504 (1972)
Worcester State Hosp. v. Hagberg, 374 Mass. 271 (1978)
Examination & commitment of criminal defendants
Manual, §§ 11-17
Blaisdell v. Comm., 372 Mass. 753 (1977)
Comm. v. Louraine, 390 Mass. 28 (1983)
Sell v. United States, 539 U.S. 166 (2003)
Vitek v. Jones, 445 U.S. 480 (1980)
Abbott A. v. Commonwealth, 458 Mass. 24 (2010)
Jackson v. Indiana, 406 U.S. 715 (1972)
Guardianship, capacity & substituted judgment
Manual, §§ 22, 24-27
Guardianship of Roe, 383 Mass. 415 (1981)
Lane v. Candura, 6 Mass.App.Ct. 377 (1978)
Rogers v. Comm’r of DMH, 390 Mass. 489 (1983)
Supt. of Belchertown State Sch. v. Saikewicz, 373 Mass. 728 (1977)
Litigating mental health cases
Manual, §§ 28-33
Ake v. Oklahoma, 470 U.S. 68 (1985)
Barefoot v. Estelle, 463 U.S. 880 (1983)
Bouchie v. Murray, 376 Mass. 524 (1978)
Comm. v. Lamb, 365 Mass. 265 (1974)
Comm. v. Lockley, 381 Mass. 156 (1980)
DYS v. A Juvenile, 398 Mass. 516 (1986)
Sexually dangerous person commitment proceedings
G.L. c. 123A, §§ 12-15
Comm. v. Bruno, 432 Mass. 489 (2000)
“Evaluating and Improving Risk Assessment …”
at: http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/217618.pdf
“Predictors of Sexual Recidivism …”
at: http://ww2.ps-sp.gc.ca/publications/corrections/pdf/200402_e.pdf
U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics: "Recidivism of Sex Offenders
Released from Prison in 1994" at: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf