Developments in the Law — The Law of Mental Illness

Table of Contents

I. Introduction

II. Sell v. United States: Forcibly Medicating the Mentally Ill to Stand Trial

III. Booker, the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, and Violent Mentally Ill Offenders

IV. The Impact of the Prison Litigation Reform Act on Correctional Mental Health Litigation

V. The Supreme Court's Pursuit of Procedural Maxima over Substantive Minima in Mental Capacity Determinations

VI. Mental Health Courts and the Trend Toward a Rehabilitative Justice System

VII. Voting Rights and the Mentally Incapacitated