Abstract: The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent death penalty jurisprudence displays the Court’s willingness to invalidate the death penalty for certain offenses or classes of offenders, including those with mental retardation and those who were under eighteen at the time of the offense. The Court has noted that the death penalty in these cases constitutes...
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By SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Saturday, April 18, 2009 WEST PALM BEACH – Milagro Cunningham’s lawyer described him as autistic and argued before a jury last week that he was insane at the time he beat and raped an 8-year-old girl, then left her to die buried under concrete blocks in...
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During the 162nd Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association being held in San Francisco May 16-21, 2009, Professor Winick will present his paper entitled Developing a Mental Health Court for Domestic Violence Perpetrators: A New Judicial Model on May 20th. This session will teach about such Courts by describing and evaluating a new...
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Professor Winick will be a speaker on two panels at a symposium titled Mental Health and Juvenile Justice: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Forensic Cases hosted by the University of Miami Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. The first panel, at 1:30 pm is entitled Juvenile Shackling: The Legal and Psychological Perspectives. The other...
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Prof. Winick was quoted in the Miami Herald on September 22nd by on the case of an autistic man accused of stabbing his mother. Autism is not a defense against a violent crime, said Bruce J. Winick, a UM law professor. For the state to prosecute, Brinegar merely has to be competent to stand...
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On Saturday, March 8 3:30-4:30 p.m Professor Winick will chair a panel discussion ant the AP-LS Annual Conference in Jacksonville, FL. The title of his session is called “Dealing with Mentally Ill Domestic Violence Perpetrators: A New Judicial Model” Abstract: People suffering from mental illness are increasingly referred to the domestic violence court. Yet...
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