Conducting Competence to Stand Trial Examinations in New Mexico: Session 2 (Recording 2)

Conducting Competence to Stand Trial Examinations in New Mexico: Session 2 (Recording 2) -Anthony Perillo, PhD Learning Objectives: 1. List at least 6 differences between examining persons for therapeutic and forensic purposes. 2. List 3 reasons the US Constitution requires that criminal defendants be competent to stand trial, and what the US Constitution minimally requires of criminal defendants for them to be considered competent to stand trial. 3. Describe how NM statutes and rules shape and consider expert testimony, and the testimony of expert witnesses. 4. Describe how NM statutes and rules direct the evaluation of criminal defendants' competence to stand trial in the state. 5. Describe strategies for evaluating NM criminal defendants whose competence to stand trial is in question. 6. Describe the results of research examining the key characteristics of defendants who are adjudicated incompetent to stand trial. 7. Describe and employ strategies for communicating the results of competence evaluations, both when testifying and writing reports. Please note: CEUs, CEs, and CMEs, as well as Certificates of Completion are not available from viewing recordings. In order to be eligible for credit, trainings and presentations must be attended live. Views expressed during this training or presentation do not reflect those of the University of New Mexico. Copyright Notice All Rights Reserved. All material appearing on the University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences YouTube (“content”) is protected by copyright under U.S. Copyright laws and is the property the University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences or the party credited as the provider of the content. You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, publish, display, perform, modify, create derivative works, transmit, or in any way exploit any such content, nor may you distribute any part of this content over any network, including a local area network, sell or offer it for sale, or use such content to construct any kind of database. You may not alter or remove any copyright or other notice from copies of the content on the University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences YouTube. Copying or storing any content except as provided above is expressly prohibited without prior written permission of the University or the copyright holder identified in the individual content’s copyright notice. For permission to use the content on the University’s website, please contact clinTBH@salud.unm.edu. Disclaimer The content contained in University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences YouTube is provided only for educational and informational purposes or as required by U.S. or N.M. law. The University attempts to ensure that content is accurate and obtained from reliable sources, but does not represent it to be error-free. University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences may add, amend or repeal any policy, procedure or regulation, and failure to timely post such changes to its website shall not be construed as a waiver of enforcement. University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences does not warrant that any functions on its website will be uninterrupted, that defects will be corrected, or that the website will be free from viruses or other harmful components. Any links to third party information on the University’s YouTube are provided as a courtesy and do not constitute an endorsement of those materials or the third party providing them.