Competency Restoration - Decriminalizing Mental Illness in MN (MNJRC RIJ 2022)

This session is eligible for  1.0 Standard CLE credit and Social Work CEUs.

To receive continuing education credits, purchase the appropriate ticket and you will receive access to the password projected video online. For legal practitioners seeking CLE credit, take note of the keyword that will appear in the video. When you are done viewing the video, submit the keyword to info@mnjrc.org and you will receive the code you need to claim your CLE. 

About this session:

This session was part of the MNJRC's 2022 Re-Imagining Justice Conference. To learn more about the annual conference, go to: https://www.mnjrc.org/re-imagining-justice-conference

Until 2022, Minnesota's response to competency restoration was regulated by Rule 20.01 of the Rules of Criminal Procedure. Stakeholders have long expressed a number of shortcomings in the rule and the overall response in Minnesota. In 2019, NAMI Minnesota led an effort to investigate this issue closely with all the stakeholders and offer solutions through the legislatively created Community Competency Restoration Task Force.

Panelists Elliot Butay (National Alliance on Mental Illness - Minnesota), Elizabeth Beltaos (Hennepin County Attorney's Office), and Katheryn Cranbrook (MN 4th Judicial District) will discuss the complex intersection of mental illnesses, the criminal legal system, and the rights of the accused.