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Arkansas Code Title 16. Practice, Procedure, and Courts § 16-80-104. Comprehensive mental health evaluation for a minor convicted of capital murder or murder in the first degree

Current as of March 28, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

<Text of section effective Jan. 1, 2024. See, also, section 16-80-104 effective until Jan. 1, 2024.>

(a) If a comprehensive mental health evaluation is not performed at the request of the minor convicted of capital murder, § 5-10-101, or murder in the first degree, § 5-10-102, before his or her trial or before he or she is sentenced, the circuit court shall ensure that a comprehensive mental health evaluation is conducted on the minor by an adolescent mental health professional licensed in the state before the minor's entry into the Division of Correction for a sentence of life imprisonment.

(b) A comprehensive mental health evaluation ordered under this section shall include without limitation the following information concerning the minor:

(1) Family interviews;

(2) Prenatal history;

(3) Developmental history;

(4) Medical history;

(5) History of treatment for substance use;

(6) Social history; and

(7) A psychological evaluation.

(c) A comprehensive mental health evaluation conducted under this section:

(1) Is not admissible into evidence at a trial or sentencing over the objections of the minor; and

(2) Shall be included in any documentation or inmate file kept by the Division of Correction or, if the minor is eventually supervised on parole or post-release supervision, the Division of Community Correction.

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