Mental Disability & Criminal Defense

Hashing Out the Law

Welcome to Hashing Out the Law, Episode Twenty One – Mental Disability & Criminal Defense. I am your host Arash Hashemi. This is the podcast where we discuss and hash out legal issues and/or topics.

Our guest this episode is Elizabeth Kelly, a criminal defense lawyer with a nationwide practice focused on representing people with mental disabilities. Elizabeth and I discuss the justice system and defendants with mental disabilities.

Her resume includes serving three terms on the board of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL). She has chaired its Mental Health as well as Membership Committees and is a Life Member.

Most recently she edited the book Representing People with Mental Disabilities: A Criminal Defense Lawyer's Best Practices Manual; which contains chapters devoted to a variety of issues confronted by people with mental disabilities in the criminal justice system such as Competency, Sanity, Neuroscience, Jail and Prison Conditions, and Working with Experts. - (Recorded 03/01/2019)

*Disclaimer - The materials on this Podcast are for informational purposes only and are not legal advice. Each legal issue depends on its particular facts, and different jurisdictions have different laws and regulations. You should not act or rely on any information from this Podcast without seeking advice from an attorney licensed to practice law in your jurisdiction. Neither the Podcast nor use of information from the Podcast creates an attorney-client relationship. In the event that this Podcast does not comply with the legal or ethical requirements of a particular state, the Law Offices of Arash Hashemi and our guests are not willing to accept representation of clients based upon their review of any portions of this Podcast which do not comply.