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CPL 730 Competency Report: What New York Courts Need

Stephan M. Carlson, MD, MBA, FAPA · Criminal Competency and Responsibility

Short answer: a CPL 730 competency report is decision-useful when it states in functional terms whether the defendant can understand the proceedings and assist counsel today, and, if not, what restoration would realistically require. A judge does not need to be told the defendant is mentally ill. The court needs to know whether this defendant can understand the proceedings and assist counsel today, and if not, what it would take to get there. A report that supplies a diagnosis but leaves those questions unanswered forces the court to do the examiner's work. The report has to answer the question the order asked A CPL 730 order does not commission a psychiatric workup; it asks whether the defe

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