conduct a forensic clinical psychological assessment of my client?
Ideally, it would be comfortable, all the way around, if Dr. Stone were initially contacted and involved in your case at least about two months prior to any scheduled trial. This time-span would allow Dr. Stone to have the usual two or three interview/testing sessions, the scoring and interpretation of the testing results, study of all available information from corroborative sources, his development/preparation of a Psychological Evaluation Report (which recently have averaged about 35+ pages in length), and one or two scheduled pre-trial conferences with the involved defense attorney. An absolute minimum time-frame for all these activities could be no less than one month.
