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2017 Arkansas Code
Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, and Courts
Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally
Chapter 80 - General Provisions
§ 16-80-104. Comprehensive mental health evaluation for a minor convicted of capital murder or murder in the first degree
Universal Citation: AR Code § 16-80-104 (2017)
- (a) If a comprehensive mental health evaluation is not performed at the request of the minor convicted of capital murder, § 5-10-101, or murder in the first degree, § 5-10-102, before his or her trial or before he or she is sentenced, the circuit court shall ensure that a comprehensive mental health evaluation is conducted on the minor by an adolescent mental health professional licensed in the state before the minor's entry into the Department of Correction for a sentence of life imprisonment.
- (b) A comprehensive mental health evaluation ordered under this section shall include without limitation the following information concerning the minor:
- (1) Family interviews;
- (2) Prenatal history;
- (3) Developmental history;
- (4) Medical history;
- (5) History of treatment for substance use;
- (6) Social history; and
- (7) A psychological evaluation.
- (c) A comprehensive mental health evaluation conducted under this section:
- (1) Is not admissible into evidence at a trial or sentencing over the objections of the minor; and
- (2) Shall be included in any documentation or inmate file kept by the Department of Correction or, if the minor is eventually supervised on parole, the Department of Community Correction.
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