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Discharge of NGRI Patient Successfully Challenged: Experts at Odds  


Author:  Fred Cohen.


Source: Volume 19, Number 01, May/June 2017 , pp.1-3(3)




Correctional Mental Health Report

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Abstract: 

The nagging problems of predicting the dangerousness of an insanity acquittee who seeks his discharge from a mental hospital are well illustrated in U.S.A. v. Mikawa, 849 F.3d 445 (8th Cir. 2017).

Keywords: Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity (NGRI); risk assessment

Affiliations:  1: Executive Editor.

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