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Abstract: 

The complete issue includes all of the articles listed in the contents above plus briefer treatments of a case in which expert testimony relevant to insanity defense wrongfully excluded from federal trial (U.S. v. Ray, 956 F.3d 1154 (9th Cir. 2020),); a look at the cost of litigation in Illinois, specifically the further impact of COVID-19 on inmate mental health; a GBMI (guilty but mentally ill)inmate appeals the lower court’s dismissal of his complaint challenging the refusal of Pennsylvania’s DOC to assign him a D Stability Code that Dooley insists his mental condition calls for. (Dooley v. Wetzel,3d Cir. 2020),); a lengthy, labored decision finding that prison officials were not aware of a substantial risk to TG inmate Green’s risk to prisoner’s safety when he was placed in a general population dorm (Green v. Hooks, 798 Fed. Appx. 411 (11th Cir. 2020)); and an appellate court ruling that a detainee has no right to a suicide screening unless the sign of prospective harm is clear (Andrews v. Wayne Co., Mich., 6th Cir. 2020).

Keywords: COVID-19; Suicide Risk; Seriously Mentally Ill; Immigration Enforcement; Americans with Disabilities Act; Lethal Force

Affiliations:  1: Executive Editor.