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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 128, No. 9

Articles | March 01, 1972

Competency for Trial: The Making of an Expert

ARTHUR HARRIS ROSENBERG; A. LOUIS McGARRY

Am J Psychiatry 1972;128:1092-1096.

Director of Mental Health Programming, Office of Justice Administration of the City of Boston, and Associate in Psychiatry (Law), Laboratory of Community Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, 58 Fenwood Rd., Boston, Mass. 02115

Lecturer on Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Laboratory of Community Psychiatry, and State Director of Legal Medicine, Massachusetts Department of Mental Health

1972, American Psychiatric Association

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The authors' four-year examination of the competency for trial issue in Massachusetts suggests that neither the psychiatric nor the legal profession in the state is currently able to deal satisfactorily with the issue. lt is likely that overburdened judges will continue to delegate decision making on the competency isssue to psychiatrists; therefore the authors suggest the necessity for special forensic training and experience so that they may responsibly produce expert opinions on the subject.

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