| Confusing competence to stand trial with insanity |
| Equating mental disorder with insanity |
| Equating psychosis at the time of the act with insanity |
| Equating current psychosis with insanity |
| Equating abnormal brain imaging with insanity |
| Referring to global or abstract wrongfulness (rather than focusing on knowledge of wrongfulness for the crime charged and at the time of the crime) |
| Failure to review relevant medical records |
| Failure to review police reports, defendant statements, and other relevant collateral information |
| Failure to interview the defendant |
| Failure to analyze every offense in a multiple offense crime |
| Failure to support opinion with factual data |
| Failure to support testimony with factual data (Ipsi dixit testimony) |
| Failure to use the correct legal standard for sanity |
| Failure to address causal nexus between mental disorder and cognitive and/or volitional prongs |
| Failure to address all prongs of the sanity test |
| Failure to consider motives for the offense that do not flow from mental disorder |
| Psychodynamic explanation for the offense given as an excuse (rather than focusing on the legal standard for sanity) |
| Failure to consider voluntary intoxication versus insanity |
| Failure to consider malingering |
