An article in NACDL’s Champion Magazine by Deborah Denno that analyzes a unique study of all criminal cases that addressed behavioral genetics evidence during a 17-year period (1994–2011), with a particular emphasis on the last four years of that time frame. The article shows that such evidence is now more widely used in court than ever before, it is introduced nearly exclusively by defense attorneys, and it is being accepted by judges for a wider variety of mental and behavioral disorders.
Read the entire NACDL Champion Magazine article.