The Attorney's Guide to Defending Veterans in Criminal Court

The Attorney's Guide to Defending Veterans in Criminal Court is a comprehensive manual to the art and science of defending criminally involved combat veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), substance abuse, or other service-related disorders. Defending Veterans brings together preeminent experts from the fields of law, medicine, social work, psychology, and psychiatry to provide practitioners with the knowledge and tools to provide effective, vigorous representation of veteran-defendants. Defending Veterans covers all points of information necessary to defending a veteran, from client interviewing to obtaining pretrial release and treatment to trial and sentencing tactics. The book is meant to be a comprehensive and easily referenced handbook. As such, it is broken down into four sections: Section I: Combat Trauma and Criminality: the Historical and Social Connection Section II: Understanding Invisible Injuries - PTSD, TBI, and Related Substance Abuse Section III: Forming the Attorney and Veteran-Client Relationship Section IV: Defending the Combat Veteran in Criminal Court.