North Carolina Administrative Code
Title 10A - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 27 - MENTAL HEALTH, COMMUNITY FACILITIES AND SERVICES
Subchapter H - MISCELLANEOUS RULES
Section .0200 - TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION OF FORENSIC EVALUATORS
Section 27H .0207 - DUTIES OF A CERTIFIED FORENSIC EVALUATOR
Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 12, December 1, 2024
When a capacity evaluation is ordered by the court, to be conducted through the LME-MCO, the local certified forensic evaluator shall conduct a forensic evaluation or examination of the defendant and shall submit a report to the court that addresses the following:
(1) the defendant's current mental state, his or her capacity to proceed to trial, a treatment recommendation, if any, and if the defendant lacks capacity to proceed, the likelihood that the defendant will gain the capacity to proceed; or
(2) the need for further evaluation of the defendant at the Pre-Trial Evaluation Center if the certified forensic evaluator is unable to reach a conclusion as to the defendant's capacity to proceed to trial.
Authority G.S. 15A
1002; 122C-54; 122C-115.4(a); 143B-147;
Eff. July 1,
1982;
Amended Eff. June 1, 2018; May 1,
1990.
