Areas of Expertise

Forensic Psychology and Forensic Neuropsychology

  • Competency to stand trial.
  • Competency to waive Miranda Rights and/or confess.
  • False Confessions
  • Not guilty by reason of insanity.
  • Mens rea (“guility mind”) and/or diminished capacity mental states.
  • Self-defense mental state claims including battered woman, battered child, and military trauma
  • State and Federal pre-trial and pre-sentence evaluations.
  • Violence risk assessments for civil commitment and sentencing for the mentally ill and/or dangerous.
  • Sexually Violent Predator Evaluations- Civil Commitment, sentencing and Megan’s Law.
  • Child pornography and online solicitation cases: Sentencing, diagnosis, risk assessment, and treatment amenability.
  • Death Penalty mitigation, intellectual disability, and competency to waive mitigation and/or be executed.
  • Forensic neuropsychological evaluations for pretrial, self-defense, and mitigation at sentencing.
  • Juvenile defendants: Competency to stand trial, transfer to adult court, and juvenile sex offenders.
  • Civil forensic psychological evaluations: Torts for emotional distress, workers compensation, and employment litigation.
  • Family and domestic court parental fitness and child custody evaluations.
  • Sexual abuse evaluations including sexual abuse symptoms, false allegations, forensic interviewing of victims, characteristics of sexual offending perpetrators
  • Military forensic neuropsychological and psychological evaluations in criminal cases and fitness for duty.
  • Substance use and dependence assessment for dual diagnosis and treatment; brain effects of acute and chronic substance use and intoxication addressing mental state and mitigation; and assessing BAC levels, memory formation, blackouts, confabulation, and competency to consent, and intoxication manslaughter
  • Civil Neuropsychological Evaluations: Torts for malpractice, personal injury, PTSD, and traumatic brain injury, emotional distress, toxic exposure, and capacity and guardianship evaluations.
  • FAA aviation evaluations for pilots and air traffic controllers
  • Immigration evaluations for undue hardship and violence/sexual risk assessments