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Article

Publication Date

11-2021

Abstract

It is absolutely essential to consider the abject ineffectiveness of counsel in a significant number of death penalty cases involving defendants with serious mental disabilities and how such ineffectiveness is often (scandalously) accepted by reviewing courts. We must also assess all of the concerns raised in this excellent paper by Hiromoto and colleagues through the filter of therapeutic jurisprudence as a way to guide counsel to thoroughly investigate all aspects of such cases (especially those involving defendants with PTSD) and to present substantial mitigating evidence to the fact finders in the sorts of cases the authors are discussing.

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Cite to: Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online November 2021, JAAPL.210089-21; DOI: https://doi.org/10.29158/JAAPL.210089-21

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