LIVE: Landmark Criminal Law and Procedure Cases Involving Persons with Mental Disabilities
May 29, 2025
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific
1.5 Hours | 1.5 CEs
Live Training via Zoom
Michael Perlin, JD and Heather Ellis Cucolo, JD present a live virtual professional training program on Landmark Criminal Law and Procedure Cases Involving Persons with Mental Disabilities in partnership with the Mental Disability Law and Policy Associates, LLC.
This program will discuss and analyze key decisions (predominantly by the US Supreme Court) in criminal law and procedure that forensic mental health professionals must understand. We will cover the most relevant and precedent-setting cases in this area and explain the ethical, legal, and practical outcomes of the case holdings.
Having a background in these particular constitutional and policy-driven cases is necessary to enhance expert testimony, advocacy, judicial education, community and correctional programs, and overall competence in understanding the criminal system as it relates to persons with a mental or developmental disability.
Training Outline:
- Competency
- Substantive standards
- Procedural issues
- Insanity
- Substantive standards
- Procedural issues
- Trial practice
- Confessions
- Testimony as to dangerousness
- Sentencing
Death penalty
- Mitigation
- Intellectual disabilitiesn
- Serious mental illness