"May you stay forever young": Robert Sadoff and the history of mental disability law.
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I am honored to have been asked to participate in the symposium honoring Bob Sadoff. He has been one of my closest friends for over 30 years and has been an inspiration to me at every stage of my career. I was especially gratified that I was asked to speak about the history and development of mental disability law, in large part because of Bob’s (to a great extent, unknown) influence on that development. I hope that this article, based on my speech, helps to illuminate that influence and to make the connection explicit. I was a rookie public defender in Trenton, New Jersey, in December 1971 when I first met Bob. He was, at the time, the immediate past-President of the American Academy for Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL). I was 25 and he was 35. He had agreed to serve as an expert witness in an insanitydefense case of mine, in which my client had stabbed his treating psychiatrist in the neck—a fact that had made many forensic witnesses reluctant to involve themselves in the case. After this initial experience, Bob became an unofficial advisor to me, and he was my first “go-to guy” when I needed to consult someone who could offer me wisdom about the global matters that involve the criminal trial process and defendants with serious mental disabilities. Within months of my meeting Bob, the Supreme Court decided the case of Jackson v. Indiana, in which it ruled that . . .[a]t the least, due process requires that the nature and duration of commitment bear some reasonable relation to the purpose for which the individual is committed [Ref. 1, p 738],
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
دوره 33 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005