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Courts are using the powerful “black robe effect" to treat severe mental illness. Should they? - Vox

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Congress has spent millions to spread assisted outpatient treatment across the country. But the evidence is far from conclusive. On the night of April 29, 2005, Akron, Ohio, police officers found 35-year-old William Hale lying in the doorway of his neighbor’s home, not breathing, unresponsive, and bleeding from several gunshot wounds to the torso. An ambulance rushed Hale to Akron General Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead at 10:12 pm. The accused shooter, a man I’ll call Buddy, claimed he shot Hale in self-defense. But the Summit County Criminal Court found Buddy guilty of manslaughter and sentenced him to three years in prison. In the years since his arrest, Buddy has been in and out of the justice system. I tagged along with his case manager, Stacie Stahl, to pick him up for a court date last August. Buddy looks at least a decade younger than his 36 years, though he sports a goatee the same color as his close-cropped black hair. He’s about 5-foot-5 and bone-thin; he seemed

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