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Guilty but mentally ill: the South Carolina experience
D W Morgan1, T M McCullough, P L Jenkins
1Department of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science, School of Medicine, University of South Carolina, Columbia 29202.
The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Thirty of the first 45 individuals to receive guilty but mentally ill (GBMI) verdicts in South Carolina were interviewed using a structured interview schedule for diagnosis. The relationship of diagnosis to pretrial evaluation and posttrial conviction treatment are discussed. No person received GBMI in a jury trial. Suggestions to improve the operation of the GBMI verdict are made, as well as a brief review of these data with data from other states.