PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Morgan, Donald W. AU - McCullough, Thomas M. AU - Jenkins, Peter L. AU - White, William M. TI - Guilty but Mentally Ill: The South Carolina Experience DP - 1988 Mar 01 TA - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online PG - 41--48 VI - 16 IP - 1 4099 - http://jaapl.org/content/16/1/41.short 4100 - http://jaapl.org/content/16/1/41.full SO - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law1988 Mar 01; 16 AB - Thirty of the first 45 individuals to receive guilty but mentally ill (GBMI) verdicts in South Carolina were interviewed using a structured interview schedule for diagnosis. The relationship of diagnosis to pretrial evaluation and posttrial conviction treatment are discussed. No person received GBMI in a jury trial. Suggestions to improve the operation of the GBMI verdict are made, as well as a brief review of these data with data from other states.