SB 553, 77th R.S.
Relating to the creation of a task force to review the methods and procedures used to evaluate a criminal defendant's competency to stand trial and use of the insanity defense.
Bills affecting clerks, courts, officials and commissioners courts. Competency, insanity defense issues scheduled for review. Full court press: task force's recommendations could change the way courts handle mentally ill defendants. Mentally ill and and mentally retarded defendants in Texas may get a chance at justice: recommendations to the task force created by Tex. S.B.553, 77th Leg., R.S. (2001) |
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