 Conviction Ends Improbable Slip through Crack for Elizabeth Smart's Fundamentalist Kidnapper
The Forensic Panel is Key as Once-Hidden Evidence, Fact Witnesses Separate Shrouded Pedophilia from Psychological Misinterpretation
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 Risk Assessment of Radical Jihadism Emerges With Khadr Jury Ruling
Clinical factors, statistics, deradicalization programs impact assessment of then 15-year-old killer --Dr. Welner consulted to government prosecutors on numerous issues, and the case witnessed a number of pivotal achievements that led to its eventual resolution
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 The Oslo Massacre and the Motivation of Mass Murder
HLN's Joy Behar Show featured forensic psychiatrist Dr. Michael Welner, Chairman of The Forensic Panel, discussing myths and facts of the Norway tragedy and those who carry out mass shooting attacks. Dr. Welner, who has examined several surviving mass shooters in his casework, believes mass murder to be a preventable crime, and recommends a press strategy for eliminating mass shooting as a social scourge. Dr. Welner added to his televised comments by noting, 'Spectacle mass murderers graft ideas shared by many and attach them to a grandiose nihilism that recognizes they will become larger than life if they kill many, or kill shockingly...'
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 Interview with Forensic Psychiatrist Michael Welner, M.D.: Part One
Dr. Welner Shares In-Depth Reflections on the Richard Baumhammers Case and How to Develop a Career in Forensic Psychiatry
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 Testimony, Thoroughness & Peer Review Key in Civil Court Ruling on Rare Diagnostic Puzzle
Judge credits The Panel's Dr. Merlino in spurning emotional damages. In a surprise conclusion to a complex dispute of a former New York state prisoner, Judge Thomas Scuccimarra rejected huge plaintiff's damages demands for injuries that claimed paralysis, incontinence, and a host of related disabilities.
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 Chief Medical Examiner Unflinching in Face of Death
It was early in the fourth grade back in his hometown of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, that Dr. David R. Fowler first realized he wanted to work with corpses. Now the chief medical examiner for the state of Maryland, Fowler took time out during the opening celebration and tour of the state's new $44million Forensic Medical Center in Baltimore on Sept. 21 to talk about the choices that landed him one of the state's most prestigious and misunderstood jobs.
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