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· 4/20/2007

Conley v. Com.

Citations

  • 643 S.E.2d 131
  • 273 Va. 554
  • 2007 Va. LEXIS 44

How courts have described this case

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  • agreeing that a licensed clinical social worker could testify as an expert on mental disorders
  • “The testimony of a country doctor concerning the sanity of his patient is as readily admissible as the testimony of the most renowned psychiatrist.”
  • \ Combs and John do not ... establish a categorical rule ... that only a medical doctor may qualify to render an expert opinion regarding the diagnosis of PTSD or any other recognized mental disorder.\

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Judges: Koontz

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