@article{ref1,
title=""Dignity was the first to leave": Godinez V. Moran, Colin Ferguson, and the trial of mentally disabled criminal defendants",
journal="Behavioral sciences and the law",
year="1996",
author="Perlin, Michael L.",
volume="14",
number="1",
pages="61-81",
abstract="This article considers the Colin Ferguson trial in the context of the United States Supreme Court's decision in Godinez v. Moran, establishing a unitary standard for the determinations of competence to stand trial, competence to plead guilty, and competence to waive counsel. The Ferguson trial was widely seen as a &quot;charade.&quot; I argue that the Ferguson spectacle was the inevitable denouement of the Godinez decision. I then look at the Ferguson trial (through contemporaneous press and television coverage) under the filters of &quot;sanism&quot; and &quot;pretextuality.&quot; I conclude that the &quot;dignity&quot; value--a prerequisite for a constitutionally-acceptable fair trial--was, as a result of Godinez, lacking in the Ferguson case.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0735-3936",
doi="10.1002/(SICI)1099-0798(199624)14:1<61::AID-BSL226>3.0.CO;2-G",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-0798(199624)14:1<61::AID-BSL226>3.0.CO;2-G"
}