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  • 1Dr. Perlin is Professor Emeritus of Law, and Founding Director, International Mental Disability Law Reform Project, New York Law School, New York, New York. Portions of the section headed "Persons with mental disabilities in the criminal justice system" are adapted from Michael L. Perlin: Mental Disability, Factual Innocence and the Death Penalty, in Contemporary Trends in Asian Criminal Justice: Paving the Way for the Future. Edited by I. Kim and J. Liu. Korean Institute of Criminology, 2014:21-46. Portions of the section headed "Prosecutorial misconduct" are adapted from Michael L. Perlin, Mental Disability and the Death Penalty: The Shame of the States. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013:118-22. michael.perlin@nyls.edu mlperlin@mdlpa.net.

The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
|October 7, 2015
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