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“I have worked extensively with issues of competency, insanity and mentally disordered offenders, requiring close collaboration with medical experts and careful application of nuanced legal standards,” he said in an email.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

He was diagnosed as a mentally disordered sex offender in 1980 and sentenced to Patton State Hospital for nine years.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2019

It is a mutual phenomenon where you have a person who is mentally disordered.

From Salon • Jun. 14, 2019

AB1847 by Democratic Assemblyman Wesley Chesbro of Arcata replaces references to insane, mentally disordered or defective persons with references to mental health disorders, intellectual disability or developmental disability.

From Washington Times • Jul. 18, 2014

Medically speaking, I was as mentally disordered as before—yet I was happy!

From A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography by Beers, Clifford Whittingham