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Court-Ordered Mental Examinations of Capital Defendants: Procedures in Ten States

Laural L. Hooper, Jennifer Evans, Robert Nida
March 26, 1999

Report to the Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules regarding the proposal to amend Rule 12.2. Procedures governing court-ordered mental examinations are presented as they have been implemented in a sample of districts with extensive death penalty experience.