Mental Health Issues

Mental Health Issues

Introduction

Mental health issues very often arise in the framework of appeals. They might be there in the transcripts. The issues related to mental health may also be hiding in the background, where the suspected defense counsel could have attained the mental health problems of the defendant but not succeeded to do so (John, 2010). Controversy is endemic to the insanity defense. The term insanity routinely attracts widespread public attention that is far out of proportion to the defense's impact on criminal justice. Part of this public fascination results from a few truly gruesome and highly bizarre crimes ...