Forensic Services

Areas of Specialization and Practice:

• Attorney consultation
• Diagnostic assessment
• Record review
• Provision of expert testimony
• Evaluation of malingering 
• Competency to stand trial evaluation
• Evaluation of degree of criminal responsibility/ sanity at the time  of the act
• Evaluation related to sentencing and mitigation
• Competency to waive Miranda rights
• Violence risk assessment

INITIAL CASE CONSULTATION

After an attorney or the Court contacts me to discuss a case  (here my client would be the Court or the attorney, not the defendant), my questions typically would include:

• Which legal question/s are most central and pressing to the case?
• What stage of the legal proceeding is the case currently in?
• What gives the attorney or Court reason to be concerned?
• Up to this point, what has been done to address this issue?

If it appears that the case is within my area of expertise, I prepare a letter describing the scope of work and conditions relevant to forensic practice, such as confidentiality and a list of potential collateral records needed for review.