Question 23 · LEK · Forensic psychiatric evaluation

Forensic psychiatric opinions in criminal cases are associated with:

1) adjudication on the merits on admission to the hospital;
2) adjudication on insanity;
3) adjudication on the degree of sanity;
4) adjudication on the conscious expression of the will;
5) adjudication on the free expression of the will;
6) adjudication on the mental state tempore criminis.
The correct answer is:
  1. A. 1,2,3.
  2. B. 1,2,6.
  3. C. 2,3,5.
  4. D. 4,5,6.
  5. E. 2,3,6.
Hint

Criminal proceedings ask about the defendant's mental state at the time of the act; questions about declarations of will belong to civil law.

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