New Orleans Jail Suicide Settles for $1.75 Million: Expert Psychiatric Testimony Reviewed
Author: Fred Cohen.
Source: Volume 18, Number 02, July/August 2016 , pp.25-26(2)
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Abstract:
Bizarre behavior and subsquent suicide lead an inmate\'s survivors to file suit alleging inadequate supervision and screening; inadequate training as well as faulty policy and procedures related to mentally ill and suicidal inmates. The expert testimony from an forensic psychiatrist and an institution physician, for the plaintiff and defendant respectively, make for an informative discussion on the scope of expert testimony in a correctional mental health care case.Keywords: Nagle v. Sheriff Marlin Gusman; Daubert, 509 U.S.; Fed. R. Evid. 702, 703; postarrest psychiatric intervention
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