| MCLE Credit: | 5.0 (Ethics: 1.5) |
| Live-Interactive Credit: | 0.0 |
| Designation Credit: | 5.0 Trial Practice/Litigation, 1.5 Ethics (Designations Information) |
| Price: | $299 – USB with electronic materials |
| Available Through: | 08/31/2025 |
$299.00
A pre-recorded VIDEO replay of the September 2024 webcast seminar, Inaugural Criminal Law Behavioral Health Symposium 2024.
Virginia CLE® Inaugural Criminal Law Behavioral Health Symposium!
Mental health is one of the most challenging issues in criminal law practice whether you are a judge, prosecutor, or defense attorney. It is important for each attorney to understand the complex, and sometimes sensitive, intricacies of behavioral health issues and related laws when dealing with clients and even victims. As laws catch up to clinical science, it is the practitioner’s responsibility to understand the science and stay current with legal developments. This seminar is designed to keep defense attorneys, prosecutors, and judges up to date on behavioral health issues and concerns in criminal cases.
In recent years, the Virginia Code has changed to provide the legal practitioner with multiple tools in crafting a mental health defense: insanity, deferred finding, mental state without insanity. For the first time since 1980, statutory changes allow, and in some cases require, Virginia judges to consider mental health issues that do not rise to the level of an insanity finding in determining both guilt and the appropriate sentence.
This seminar provides a practical guide for the lawyer attempting to figure out how best to defend a mentally ill client from a competency determination through a trial strategy using the new code provisions. Sessions include:
Behavioral/Mental Health Legal Update
Bradley Marshall
Ethics of Representing and Prosecuting Defendants with Behavioral Health Issues
Bradley Marshall, Annette Miller, Elliott H. DeJarnette V
Behavioral Health: A Practice Primer
Moderators: D. Bradley Marshall, Annette Miller
Behavioral Health Roundtable/Behavioral Health Docket Session
Moderators: D. Bradley Marshall, Annette Miller
Panelists: Hon. William E. Glover, Hon. Judge William Jarvis, Richard Wright, M.S., Weare A. Zwemer Ph.D.
Hon. William E. Glover, 15th Judicial District, Circuit Court / Spotsylvania
Hon. William E. Jarvis, Prince William General District Court / Manassas
Elliott H. DeJarnette V, Commonwealth Attorney’s Office / Henrico
Bradley Marshall, Vanderpool, Frostick & Nishanian, PC / Manassas
Annette Miller, Virginia Beach Public Defender’s Office / Virginia Beach
Richard Wright, M.S., Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services / Richmond
Weare A. Zwemer, Ph.D., Psychological Services of Chesapeake / Chesapeake
Bradley Marshall, Vanderpool, Frostick & Nishanian, PC / Manassas
Annette Miller, Virginia Beach Public Defender’s Office / Virginia Beach
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