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Ake v. Oklahoma
Ake v. Oklahoma,, was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment required the state to provide a psychiatric evaluation to be used on behalf of an indigent criminal defendant if he needed it.
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Ammar al-Baluchi
Ammar Al-Baluchi (عمار البلوشي,; also transliterated as Amar Al-Balochi, born Ali Abdul Aziz AliShannon, Elaine. Time,, May 1, 2003) is a Pakistani citizen in U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
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Atomwaffen Division
The Atomwaffen Division ("Atomwaffen" meaning "Atomic Weapons" in German) is a neo-Nazi terrorist organization based in the United States.
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Bachelor of Arts in Forensic Psychology
A Bachelor of Forensic Psychology (also referred to as Industrial Psychology) is a type of postgraduate academic Bachelor's degree awarded by universities in many countries.
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Barefoot v. Estelle
Barefoot v. Estelle, 463 U.S. 880 (1983),.
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Charles Ray Hatcher
Charles Ray Hatcher (July 16, 1929December 7, 1984) was an American serial killer who confessed to having murdered 16 people between 1969 and 1982.
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Chester Mental Health Center
The Chester Mental Health Center is the only State of Illinois' maximum security forensic mental health facility for those committed via a court order or deemed an escape risk.
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Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting
On November 27, 2015, a mass shooting occurred in a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, resulting in the deaths of three people and injuries to nine.
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Competence
Competence may refer to.
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Competence (law)
In United States law, competence concerns the mental capacity of an individual to participate in legal proceedings or transactions, and the mental condition a person must have to be responsible for his or her decisions or acts.
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Competency evaluation
Competency evaluation may refer to.
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Cooper v. Oklahoma
Cooper v. Oklahoma,, was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court reversed an Oklahoma court decision holding that a defendant is presumed to be competent to stand trial unless he proves otherwise by the second highest legal standard of proof, that of clear and convincing evidence, ruling that to be unconstitutional.
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Darren Mack
Darren Roy Mack (born January 31, 1961) became the subject of an international manhunt in June 2006 after being charged with the stabbing death of his 39-year-old estranged wife, Charla Mack, in the garage of their Reno, Nevada home.
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Douglas Kelley
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Drope v. Missouri
Drope v. Missouri, 420 U.S. 162 (1975), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held a Missouri trial court deprived a defendant of due process by failing to order a competency examination after he was hospitalized following an attempted suicide and as a result missed a portion of his trial for a capital offense.
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Dusky v. United States
Dusky v. United States, 362 U.S. 402 (1960), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court affirmed a defendant's right to have a competency evaluation before proceeding to trial.
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Estelle v. Smith
Estelle v. Smith,, was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that, per Miranda v. Arizona (1966), the state may not force a defendant to submit to a psychiatric examination solely for the purposes of sentencing.
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Evaluation (disambiguation)
Evaluation is the process of judging something or someone based on a set of standards.
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Florida State Hospital
Florida State Hospital (FSH) is a hospital and psychiatric hospital in Chattahoochee, Florida.
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Ford v. Wainwright
Ford v. Wainwright,, was a U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the common law rule that the insane cannot be executed; therefore the petitioner is entitled to a competency evaluation and to an evidentiary hearing in court on the question of their competency to be executed.
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Forensic psychiatry
Forensic psychiatry is a sub-speciality of psychiatry and is related to criminology.
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Forensic psychology
Forensic psychology is the intersection between psychology and the justice system.
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Foucha v. Louisiana
Foucha v. Louisiana, 504 U.S. 71 (1992), was a U.S. Supreme Court case in which the court addressed the criteria for the continued commitment of an individual who had been found not guilty by reason of insanity.
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Frendak v. United States
Frendak v. United States, 408 A.2d 364 (D.C. 1979) is a landmark case in which District of Columbia Court of Appeals decided that a judge could not impose an insanity defense over the defendant's objections.
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Godinez v. Moran
Godinez v. Moran, 509 U.S. 389 (1993),.
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Hervey M. Cleckley
Hervey Milton Cleckley (1903 – January 28, 1984) was an American psychiatrist and pioneer in the field of psychopathy.
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Insanity
Insanity, craziness, or madness is a spectrum of both group and individual behaviors characterized by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns.
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Insanity defense
The insanity defense, also known as the mental disorder defense, is a defense by excuse in a criminal case, arguing that the defendant is not responsible for his or her actions due to an episodic or persistent psychiatric disease at the time of the criminal act.
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Jackson v. Indiana
Jackson v. Indiana,, was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that determined a U.S. state violated due process by involuntarily committing a criminal defendant for an indefinite period of time solely on the basis of his permanent incompetency to stand trial on the charges filed against him.
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James Stuart McKnight
James Stuart McKnight (November 15, 1884 – December 25, 1950) was a National Guard officer who served in World War I, an attorney and a member of the City Council in Los Angeles, California, in 1931 and 1932.
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James von Brunn
James Wenneker von Brunn (July 11, 1920 – January 6, 2010) was an American man who perpetrated the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting in Washington, D.C. on June 10, 2009.
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Jones v. United States (1983)
Jones v. United States, is a United States Supreme Court case in which the court, for the first time, addressed whether the due process requirement of the Fourteenth Amendment allows defendants, who were found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI) of a misdemeanor crime, to be involuntarily confined to a mental institution until such times as they are no longer a danger to themselves or others with few other criteria or procedures limiting the actions of the state.
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José Padilla (prisoner)
José Padilla (born October 18, 1970), also known as Abdullah al-Muhajir or Muhajir Abdullah, is a United States citizen from Brooklyn, New York, who was convicted in federal court of aiding terrorists.
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Joshua Ryne Goldberg
Joshua Ryne Goldberg (born May 14, 1995) is an American failed terrorist, convicted of attempting a bombing on the 14th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, while posing as an "Islamic" terrorist affiliated with ISIS.
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Karen Franklin
Karen Franklin is an American forensic psychologist based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Kenneth L. Curtis
Kenneth L. Curtis (born August 3, 1965) is a former college student from Connecticut who on October 30, 1987 shot and killed his estranged girlfriend, and shot himself in the head.
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Laura's Law
Laura's Law is a California state law that allows for court-ordered assisted outpatient treatment.
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Legal psychology
Legal psychology involves empirical, psychological research of the law, legal institutions, and people who come into contact with the law.
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Lionel Tate
Lionel Alexander Tate (born January 30, 1987) is the youngest American citizen ever sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole.
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List of criminal competencies
List of criminal competencies is a listing of the various types of competencies relevant to the defendant in criminal law in the United States.
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List of landmark court decisions in the United States
The following is a partial list of landmark court decisions in the United States.
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List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Rehnquist Court
This is a partial chronological list of cases decided by the United States Supreme Court during the Rehnquist Court, the tenure of Chief Justice William Rehnquist from September 26, 1986 through September 3, 2005.
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Man in Tree
Man in Tree refers to a widely viewed standoff between Cody Lee Miller and police on March 22–23, 2016, in Seattle, Washington.
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Murder of Kathryn Faughey
Kathryn Faughey was a 56-year-old New York City psychologist who was murdered by 39-year-old David Tarloff at her upper East Side Manhattan office on the night of February 12, 2008.
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Mustafa al-Hawsawi
Mustafa al-Hawsawi (مصطفى الهوساوي, Muṣṭafā al-Ḥawsāwī; born August 5, 1968) is a Saudi Arabian citizen of African descent.
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Nativo Lopez
Nativo Lopez-Vigil is a Mexican American political leader and immigrant rights activist in Southern California.
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North Texas State Hospital
The North Texas State Hospital (NTSH) is an inpatient mental health facility owned by the State of Texas and under the Texas Department of State Health Services.
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Oikos University shooting
The Oikos University shooting occurred on April 2, 2012, when a gunman shot at people inside Oikos University, a Korean Christian college in Oakland, California, United States.
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Panetti v. Quarterman
Panetti v. Quarterman, 551 U.S. 930 (2007), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, ruling that criminal defendants sentenced to death may not be executed if they do not understand the reason for their imminent execution, and that once the state has set an execution date death-row inmates may litigate their competency to be executed in habeas corpus proceedings.
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Perry v. Louisiana
Perry v. Louisiana,, was a United States Supreme Court case over the legality of forcibly medicating a death row inmate with a mental disorder, to render him competent to be executed.
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Ramzi bin al-Shibh
Ramzi bin al-Shibh (رمزي بن الشيبة,; also transliterated as bin al-Shaibah) (born May 1, 1972, with supporting conspirators, Ramzi bin al-Shibh and Mustafa al-Hawsawi. Filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.) is a Yemeni citizen being held by the U.S. as an enemy combatant detainee at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
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Riggins v. Nevada
Riggins v. Nevada, is a U.S. Supreme Court case in which the court decided whether a mentally ill person can be forced to take antipsychotic medication while they are on trial to allow the state to make sure they remain competent during the trial.
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Samuel Alba
Samuel Alba is a United States magistrate judge for the United States District Court for the District of Utah.
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Sell v. United States
Sell v. United States, is a landmark decision in which the United States Supreme Court imposed stringent limits on the right of a lower court to order the forcible administration of antipsychotic medication to a criminal defendant who had been determined to be incompetent to stand trial for the sole purpose of making them competent and able to be tried.
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Shona Banda
Shona Banda (1978 or 1979) is a Kansas resident of Garden City and medical cannabis rights advocate who was arrested for possession of cannabis in 2015.
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Subfields of psychology
Psychology encompasses a vast domain, and includes many different approaches to the study of mental processes and behavior.
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Supreme Court of Missouri
The Supreme Court of Missouri is the highest court in the state of Missouri.
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The Mask of Sanity
The Mask of Sanity: An Attempt to Clarify Some Issues About the So-Called Psychopathic Personality is a book written by American psychiatrist Hervey M. Cleckley, first published in 1941, describing Cleckley's clinical interviews with patients in a locked institution.
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The Sinner (TV series)
The Sinner is an American crime drama mystery television series, based on the novel of the same name by Petra Hammesfahr.
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Timeline of disability rights in the United States
This disability rights timeline lists events relating to the civil rights of people with disabilities in the United States of America, including court decisions, the passage of legislation, activists' actions, significant abuses of people with disabilities that illustrate their lack of civil rights at the time, and the founding of various organizations.
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Trials related to the September 11 attacks
This page lists trials related to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting
At about 12:50 p.m. on June 10, 2009, 88-year-old white supremacist James Wenneker von Brunn entered the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. with a rifle and fatally shot Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns.
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United States v. Binion
United States v. Binion, 132 F. App'x 89 (8th Cir. 2005), is a case in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit applied two recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions, United States v. Booker and United States v. Fanfan, in uphelding the sentencing decision by the trial court, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.
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United States v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
United States v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, et al. is the trial of five alleged Al-Qaeda members for aiding the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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Walid bin Attash
Walid Muhammad Salih bin Roshayed bin Attash (وليد محمد صالح بن رشيد بن عطاش; born 1978) was an Al Qaeda Agent and a Yemeni prisoner held in extrajudicial detention at the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps.
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Wilford Berry Jr.
Wilford Lee Berry, Jr. (September 2, 1962 – February 19, 1999) was an American murderer.
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2001 Nevada County shootings
On January 10, 2001, a shooting spree took place in Nevada County, California, when 40-year-old Scott Harlan Thorpe opened fire with a semi-automatic pistol, killing three people and wounding two others in two separate shootings in the Nevada County area.
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2003 Abbeville, South Carolina right-of-way standoff
The 2003 Abbeville right-of-way standoff was a 14-hour shootout that took place on December 8, 2003, in Abbeville, South Carolina, between alleged extremists and self-proclaimed "sovereign citizens" Arthur, wife Rita, and son Steven Bixby; and members of the Abbeville city police department, the Abbeville County sheriff's office, the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the South Carolina Department of Transportation, and the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division.
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2011 Tucson shooting
On January 8, 2011, U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords and eighteen others were shot during a constituent meeting held in a supermarket parking lot in Casas Adobes, Arizona, in the Tucson metropolitan area.
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