13 Mass. L. Rptr. 27 - Commonwealth v. Rodriguez’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
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cited by 1 later decisions
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states following
April 2001
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Myers v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Bruno · Cambridgeport Savings Bank v. Boersner
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“When the DSM-IV categories, criteria, and textual descriptions are employed for forensic purposes, there are significant risks that diagnostic information will be misused or misunderstood. These dangers arise because of the imperfect fit between the questions of ultimate concern to the law and the information contained in a clinical diagnosis. In most situations, the clinical diagnosis of a DSM-IV mental disorder is not sufficient to establish the existence for legal purposes of a “mental disorder,” “mental disability,” “mental disease,” or “mental defect.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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