Forensic Psychology Expert

Practice Areas

• Areas of focus
• Area of specialty is the application of neuropsychology and forensic psychology
• Focus Area Overview
• Laws / Procedures
• Firm / Experience

Areas of focus:

Specialty areas: Civil and criminal competencies including competency to execute a will, forensic criminal assessment (competency, sanity, false confession, eyewitness identification, capital litigation, criminal intent, competency to waive Miranda, evaluation of sex offenders). Forensic civil assessments, expert on brain injury, competency to execute wills, effects of physical and psychological trauma. Family law assessment, expert in bonding studies, custody and visitation recommendations, second opinion on custody evaluations, and assessments of cognitive functioning. Military assessments: assessment of post-traumatic stress disorder, battle trauma, and fitness for duty evaluations.

Area of specialty is the application of neuropsychology and forensic psychology

• Criminal courts: forensic assessments pertaining to:
  • False confessions
  • Eyewitness identifications
  • Criminal intent
  • Effects of brain injury on behavior
  • Sanity
  • Competency
  • Sex offending allegations – Analysis of investigative interviews
  • Critique of child investigative interviews
  • Cognitive assessment
  • Brain pathology and behavior
• Family courts:
  • Expert in bonding studies
  • Custody and visitation recommendations
  • Second opinion on custody evaluations
• Civil courts:
  • Psychological and physical effects of brain trauma
  • Competency to execute wills
  • Effects of physical and psychological trauma
  • Effects of pornography on minors
• Law enforcement
  • Member of Orange County Sheriff, Professional service reserve.
  • Member of crisis team assisting officers with involuntary holds
  • Input to Orange County Sheriff in Homeland Security Matters
  • Assisted officers in field to manage and approach unstable subjects
  • Please contact us to arrange for initial 2 hour consultation and fee estimate

Focus Area Overview:

To provide forensic neuropsychological and clinical assessment in relation to legal counsel. Initial forensic evaluation provides for identification of problems, assistance with defense and prosecution. Integration of medical and psychological is achieved. Firm foundations of the science utilized relating to criminal, family law and civil matters. Professional presentation of scientific data to fact finders and juries. Procedure is initial consultation provided to counsel to define nature and scope of problem. Application of findings to referral issues. After initial consultation, a plan for the evaluation, psychological and cognitive testing is presented.

Laws / Procedures:

General procedure is for referral source to provide all medical and educational relevant records. Third party information relevant to referral issues is quiet helpful in conjunction with evaluation approach of using multiple data sources. This approach can contribute greatly to reliability and validity of the forensic assessment.

Firm / Experience:

• 30 years of experience in practice of forensic neuropsychology and clinical psychology.
• Defense, prosecution and court appointed expert
• Expert medical reviewer
• Assistant professor, psychiatry and behavioral science, Keck school of Medicine, USC.
• Forensic assessments of fitness of duty evaluations
• Individual and family therapy for USC referred patients.
• Peer reviewer, guest lecturer, guest editor, lecturer symposium American College of Forensic Psychology
• Expert Testimony contributed to new trials and reversal of criminal convictions
• Court appointed expert to review treatment facility program
• Member Orange County Sheriff, Professional service reserve
• USC referral resource for community