Sanity and Sanity Restoration Assessments are essential components of our forensic services, helping to determine an individual’s mental state at the time of an offense and their current dangerousness if released into the community under our Sanity Restoration Assessments. Our experienced professionals conduct thorough evaluations to assist the court in informing legal decisions to ensure that the individual requesting release will be provided the necessary support.
This assessment is established on the M’Naghten rule. The M’Naghten rule, as defined, states that an accused was laboring under such a mental defect, disease, or disorder, that the person was unable to know or understand the nature and quality of the act they were doing, or if they did know it, they did not know what they were doing was wrong (People v. Horn, (1984) 158 Cal.App.3d 1014: Proposition 8, the Victim’s Bill of Rights, at the June 1982 Primary Election).
Forensic Psychological Assessment Services