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Lynch v. State

Citations

  • 951 So. 2d 549
  • 2007 WL 474271

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that trial courts may use any approved test to determine mental retardation and/or malingering
  • clarifying that an Atkins claimant may use any approved tests and procedures and does not have to take the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory II (MMPI-II
  • abolishing this Court's prior mandatory requirement that the experts administer a specific test for malingering
  • abolishing this Court’s prior mandatory requirement that the experts administer a specific test for malingering
  • trial courts are free to use any approved test to determine mental retardation and/or malingering

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