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Sabrina
Rhinehart
Mental Health Advocate
Alicia Thomas
Senior Staff Attorney
Charles Hess
Staff Attorney
Susan
Myrick
Paralegal
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Office
of the Mental
Health Advocate
104 Marietta St.
Suite 200
Atlanta, GA 30303
(404) 232-8900
(800) 676-4432
Fax: (404) 651-5706
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| Defense Strategies for Evaluating, Placing and Treating
the Mentally Ill Client
Office of the Mental Health Advocate
AGENDA
May 19, 2005 8:15 - 8:45am Registration
8:45 - 10:15am
Nuts and Bolts of Defending a Mentally Ill Client -
Attorney Sabrina Rhinehart and Alicia Thomas 10:15 -10:30am Break
10:30
- 12:00 Distinguishing Mental Illness & Retardation
/ How to have an Effective
Evaluation -
Dr. Stuart Currie 12:00 - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00 - 2:00pm
Competency on the Hot Seat: Jo Carol Nesset-Sale argues the Sims case
before the Supreme Court -
Attorney Jo Carol Nesset-Sale
2:00 - 3:00pm
Bells, Whistles and Screams: What you Need to Know about Placement as
Alternatives to Sentencing -
Lisa Rasheed, LCSW 3:00 - 3:15pm Break
3:15 - 5:00pm
Governors Pilot (HELP) Program: Hall County Mental Health Court -
Panel Discussion
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| Our
Mission
The Office of the Mental Health Advocate (OMHA)
was created by statute in 1996 to provide services
to attorneys representing criminal defendants with
mental health challenges. OMHA monitors cases in
Georgia involving pleas of Not Guilty by Reason
of Insanity (NGRI) and it directly represents a limited
number of insanity acquittees. We provide
services state-wide as a way of assisting attorneys,
the hospitals, and the courts in criminal cases involving
mentally ill defendants. |
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Announcements
and Articles
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 2:38 PM
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Check
here frequently for OMHA news and articles about
mental health issues in the criminal justice system.
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NEW FACES IN THE OFFICE OF THE MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATE
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| OMHA would like to welcome Jennifer Nicole Lane as a 2008 summer intern. She is a member of the class of 2010 at Nova Southeastern University in Florida. Her undergraduate major was Psychology and she selected the office as the site of her first internship because of her keen interest in the challenges of mentally ill defendants. She plans to continue her legal studies at Nova Southeastern and return to Georgia after attaining her Juris Doctor. |
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The Office of the Mental Health Advocate welcomes its’ 2008 Spring volunteer, Ms. Deborah Baldwin as she starts an internship.
Ms. Baldwin comes to OMHA with a great deal of experience, as well as a passion for upholding the rights of the mentally ill. She has worked in the legal profession since 1988. Having trained as a legal executive, she qualified as an attorney in England in July 1996 and her background has been primarily in criminal and mental health law. She obtained an LLM in Medical Law from the University of Northumbria in 2005.
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Legislative Update - Changes in 17-7-130 Incompetent to Stand Trial (IST)
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Macon Gets New Mental Health Court
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Yvonne Sherrill Receives the Department of Human Resources Forensic Services’ 1st Annual Debra Blum Award
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Women at Risk:
Neonaticide, Infanticide and Filicide
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Clarifying the Process for Defendants Found Guilty but Mentally Ill or Guilty but Mentally Retarded
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Judge Winston P. Bethel Wins Debra J Blum Award
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Aspergers' Syndrome - The Odd, Eccentric, Socially Impaired Have Help
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Kenneth Shepherd Gets His
Day in Court
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Shock Therapy: It's Not a
Thing
of the Past
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Psychiatric Medications 101 has been updated.
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A
Victory for Competency in Simms Case
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The
Governor's Pilot Mental Health Diversion Program:
The HELP Program, A Hall County Inititative
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Dealing
with a Schizophrenic Client
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The Standard of Review for Competency Challenged
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Honoring
Debbie Blum, a Mental Health Pioneer |
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